For those who do not know, the Janesville School Board has demanded that the teachers sign contracts without actually knowing what is in them.   This is following a long line of contentious dealings between the Janesville teachers and their local school board. Former Janesville resident and current Dane County Board member Jenni Dye, wrote the [...]

The Madison School Board race has been interesting to say the least. For those of you scoring at home, three candidates declared their candidacy for Seat #5, Sarah Manski, TJ Mertz and Ananda Mirilli. Having three candidates meant that a primary was triggered to narrow the candidates on the April ballot to two. On primary [...]

The fact that the state of education has deteriorated since Scott Walker has been in power can be summed up in two words – Michael Brickman!    Brickman, AKA Rich in retail:    Brickman who graduated from an East Coast university three years ago with a Political Science Degree.  Has a  very shallow resume of working [...]

As the Cartoonish Chief Erwin sends his minions all over the state to issue tickets for singing in the Capitol, (purportedly for gathering in groups of four or more) yet he is selective in who gets these tickets! H/T Rebecca Kemble for this picture from Inauguration Day: I checked Ccap and none of these people [...]

We all know by now that Sly in the Morning and the local news team, on 1670 WTDY was ambushed and fired the day before Thanksgiving by new General Manager Rick Mccoy. Thus effectively ending any local voice that progressives have. Also ending any chance that people have of actual real time news coverage. With [...]

So the people in the village who so adamantly oppose the library, will not make a fool of themselves when they try and write letters to the editor! Goodbye Fiscal Responsibility Destination Imagination (DI) is an excellent after-school program that provides educational programs for students. Participants learn patience, flexibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and [...]

The Monona Grove School District recently held series of public hearings regarding proposed budget reductions in the district. As a district we have to cut approximately $1.2 million dollars from the budget this year, followed by preliminary reports of another $800,000 next year. I was happy that Superintendent Gerlach and the Board members present let [...]

Monona Grove School District will be holding three meetings regarding the $1.2 million dollars in reductions that we need to make for the next school year. The cuts are not pretty and only going to get worse as time goes on. I recommend that everyone show up to at least one of them to see [...]

It is Board of Education candidate forum season and everyone is getting into the act (full list at the bottom).  That includes Sustain Dane and the Isthmus, who are co-sponsoring a forum.  All good, except they have chosen Dave Cieslewicz as one of the moderators and today our ex-Mayor endorsed two of the candidates.  Nice [...]

I have written before of the the right wings veiled attempts to privatize public education. I have also pointed out that while they are trying to privatize our schools without the public knowing, occasionally they let some things slip and let us know what they are after. As an education consultant/reformer stated in a recent [...]

I wrote about this subject recently, but want to expand a little more, on the topic (especially in lieu of the ongoing Madison Prep debate). I pointed out that the current group of education reformers have no real interest in “reforming” education but their interest is in personally profiting off of public education. In reality, [...]