Schools Fail Because We Ask Them To Do Too Much

The little quotation following comes from the weekly education column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel written by Alan Borsuk. It is about the pros and cons of re-opening schools this fall and who may succeed and who may fail…at both the school level…and the student level. The article is here…

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The Education Governor Left Wisconsin School Districts Out In The Cold

Ever since his early budget cuts out of Madison that reduced revenue sharing for Wisconsin school districts, the self titled Education Governor has been touting the money he partially put back into his budgets. Yet it left Wisconsin public schools short. Then he took more money out of their budgets…

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WI GOP Continues Their Assault On Local Democracy

After cutting state aid for public schools and capping local property taxes, Governor Scott Walker and the GOP legislature allowed local school boards some leeway in raising money to fund public education. Whether for new facilities, remodeling current facilities or funding ongoing educational activities, local school boards were allowed to…

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OP ED: Politician-made perfect storm could damage our kids’ schools

This is being reprinted with permission from Save Our Schools Wauwatosa. It originally appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and OnMilwaukee.com and was written by Mary Young. Most of you know how I feel about public schools and I think this bears reprinting here: There’s a perfect storm heading toward…

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Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program Doesn’t Go Far Enough

After reading the article in this morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the shortage of teachers…and the inequality of per pupil spending across the metropolitan area…I realized that the Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program just underway out of the county executives office doesn’t go far enough. Instead of taking over a…

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Red Counties and Public Schools

Ok…so this is only anecdotal evidence…but I going with it. I had to make an unplanned business trip to Door County Friday night – Saturday. Along HWY 42 just north of the Two Rivers high school is a billboard touting the advantages of the Two Rivers public school system. This…

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Separate But UnEqual

This past Sunday weekly Milwaukee Journal Sentinel education columnist Alan Borsuk wrote a great column on the GOPs attempt to require all Wisconsin students to pass a civics test as a requirement for a high school diploma. This new requirement would apply to public, private, charter and voucher schools. It’s…

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Political Cartoon Courtesy of Dan Burr

Copyright 2015 by Dan Burr

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Another Take on Governor Walker and Those Union Thug NFL Referees!

From my friends at Thirdcoast Digest and their weekly winners and losers column. I imagine you can guess in which category I found this item: Gov. Scott Walker In the aftermath of “Goldengate” or “The Toucheception” or whatever its being called now, Gov. Scott Walker tweeted this, about the unionized,…

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Irrefutable Proof

Why we need to go to a part time legislature. Let me take a step back quick and set this up. I recently came across tthis article about why the religious right does not like public schools. Right-wing fundamentalists such as Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum hate public schools, which…

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