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 [...]
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Posted by Zach W on March 10, 2010, at 5:59 am
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, [...] Posted by Zach W on March 2, 2010, at 6:05 am
Unless the South Milwaukee school district realizes $600,000 in “Reductions in Salary in Benefits,” (which is code for the district’s employees taking pay and benefit cuts) the School Board has proposed drastic cuts to balance the district’s budget, including cutting one full time orchestra position, resulting in the elimination of the fifth grade orchestra, while [...] Posted by Zach W on February 8, 2010, at 5:40 am
As I’ve noted before, Wisconsin’s school funding formula is flawed, perhaps fatally. School districts across the state are facing increasingly difficult decisions on how to balance their desire to provide a quality education to their students with their need to not bust their budgets, and as Forward Our Motto points out, a very small [...] Posted by AL on December 30, 2009, at 10:02 am
Do The Folks who keep telling us MPS is Great as is, FOR EXAMPLE IN TODAY’s NEWS… And Then Another Child Dies… This is a failure of our system in so many ways ! But [...] Posted by Zach W on October 7, 2009, at 5:54 am
Found in my emailbox… As you may have heard, contract negotiations between the MATC administration and the part-time teachers’ union have recently broken down. We are in the midst of a public relations blitz in an attempt to get the word out regarding the lack of proper compensation for part-time faculty. The heart of our argument is [...] Posted by Zach W on September 9, 2009, at 5:46 am
Listen as then-President Ronald Reagan spoke to American schoolchildren in 1988, and pay close attention as Reagan espouses traditional moral values, lower taxes, and smaller government, all of which just coincidentally happen to be key tenets of the conservative movement: I look forward to reading my conservative readers’ comments criticizing President Reagan for his shameless attempt [...] Posted by Zach W on September 8, 2009, at 11:00 pm
H/T to Michael Mathias. Posted by PartiallyBlue on August 23, 2009, at 7:09 am
The proposed consolidation of the Chetek and Weyerhauser school districts is continuing to move forward almost unopposed. One would think that bussing kids 20 miles to another school district would have more of an outcry. The Weyerhauser parents view Chetek as a viable alternative to the expenses of maintaining their own school district. Two Weyerhauser residents calling themselves Citizens For [...] Posted by PartiallyBlue on August 18, 2009, at 8:18 pm
Conceptually speaking, of course. Not in reality. The bell is ringing, the money may be coming, and both political parties are salivating over who can create a program to tap into federal funds to pay teachers more money. “We should not waste the opportunity the Obama administration is giving us,” Carlson said of the Race to the Top funds. [...] |
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