Donate to Our Ten in ’10

Russ Feingold (WI-Sen) $
Tom Barrett (WI-Gov) $
Chris Larson (WI-SD-07) $
Tom Michalski (WI-HD-21) $
Todd Kolosso (WI-05) $
Paul Morel (WI-04) $
Dan Bohrod (WI-Treas) $
Christine Sinicki (WI-HD-20) $
Milwaukee County Democrats (WI) $
Jim Sullivan (WI-SD-05) $

Archives

Regular reader? Kachingle is a simple way to support my blog and other sites you love.

Posted by Proud Progressive on August 26, 2010, at 12:34 pm

Looks like someone wasnt paying attention in school.

Mark Neumann is on the air with his latest radio ad. He is going to fix our schools and save them from Madison.

Listen to it here!

“I’ve seen how good our schools can work ”

Ummm Mark, i have seen how well a good editor can work…

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted by MadCityMan on August 25, 2010, at 1:55 pm

UW Madison & Marquette Ranked in Top 30 Schools

UW Madison and Marquette placed among the top 40 national Universities in a recent ranking by the Washington Monthly’s College Guide based on national rankings in 3 criteria ” Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country)”. Madison ranked #23 and Marquette ranked #32. The UW did particularly well on Research with a number 9 rank, while Marquette scored a 2nd place finish on Service. UWM achieved an overall ranking of 250, out of the 258 national schools ranked. [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted by Ed Heinzelman on August 24, 2010, at 9:14 pm

Tim John nails the point on central city unemployment!

I started working on this blog about a week ago and then set it aside when Tim John posted that he was attending Drinking Liberally. I thought I’d talk to him a bit and add any new information before posting. Well he showed up but I got distracted by other conversations. Well after reading [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted by Proud Progressive on August 23, 2010, at 5:18 pm

Roger Roth breaking it down…

One of the many republicans in the 8th Cong district, running for the opportunity to lose to Dr. Steve Kagen, recently gave a speech to a kindergarten class and broke it down for everyone in the room to understand.

He elightened the room with one of the best descriptions ever. “The Constitution is a [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted by Proud Progressive on August 22, 2010, at 9:39 pm

Unfortunately, it is not out of the realm of possibility…

A quick browse of the Huffington Post and my eye caught this story. After a nice belly laugh, I started looking elsewhere on the page and came across these stories also:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/22/rod-blagojevich-future-in-politics-fox-news_n_690372.html

It was symbolic when the six Republican candidates for U.S. Senate stood up together side-by-side during a debate Wednesday. It resembled their [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted by Proud Progressive on August 11, 2010, at 9:35 pm

Three Cheers For The Teachers!!!

Tomorrow I register my kids for the upcoming school year(already). I so rarely read the daily Kos, that I do not know how I even stumbled upon this gem but I did and wanted to share it. I think everyone should thank a teacher this year as they have one of the toughest most [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted by Zach on August 2, 2010, at 9:26 pm

Are Ron Johnson & Charles Murray two peas in a pod on education?

As reported by the Oshkosh Northwestern, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson worked really really hard for over a year to bring controversial author Charles Murray to Oshkosh to speak about education. In his role as chairman of the Oshkosh Partners in Education (PIE) Council, a group of educators and business leaders who meet [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted by Proud Progressive on April 15, 2010, at 8:56 am

Teachers are underpaid

The school budget meetings have taken up the headlines lately, and they probably will for some time to come.  As we saw during the days leading up to the election, this issue is not just affecting us, but almost every community in the surrounding area.   While there is no one solution, there is one [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted by Zach on March 12, 2010, at 6:02 am

Walker proposes bigger government

Going against his “small government” grain, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker said yesterday he favors splitting Milwaukee Public Schools into smaller school districts. Speaking at the Marquette University Law School, Walker suggested that the state’s largest school district should be broken up into ten to twelve autonomous districts. Presumably, each of those ten to [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted by Zach on March 10, 2010, at 5:59 am

Video from the South Milwaukee school board meeting

Eight days ago, I wrote about budget cuts proposed by South Milwaukee school district administrators, cuts that included eliminating the fifth grade orchestra program, eliminating a teaching position for the at-risk program, cutting the golf team, and raising fees for students and athletics. My original entry sparked a lively debate on the proposed cuts, [...]

  • Share/Bookmark