Governor Walker Wants To Micromanage YOUR School Board

One of the hallmarks of public education in Wisconsin is the locally elected school board. Local individuals who are invested in the results of public education can run for their local school board. Or if not on the board they can reach out to their local representative to have their…

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Walker Style Crisis Management: Rural Education

A budget or two ago, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker cut nearly a billion dollars out of state support for public education. In the last budget some of that money trickled back into the pipeline. But during the last election cycle dozens of rural and urban school districts held successful referenda…

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Governor Walker Supports 3 Year College Degree Program!

For my thousand and first post, I am going for pure snark: For his recent new found support for public education during is State of the State address, Governor Walker suggested that he’d work with the University of Wisconsin System to develop a three year degree program. Walker reiterated the…

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Some Ideas on Education

  No doubt public education will be a topic of discussion for the upcoming elections in 2014 and 2016, and most likely those discussions will include mention of how crucial education infrastructure is for a healthy economy, which is true. At the same time, what so often gets marginalized in…

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Scott Walker Strikes Again – Update

I wrote this morning about Scott Walker's latest attack on teachers. This morning Katy Lounsbury was on SLY explaining this in further detail: The rule redefines base wages for public employees as something other than what a teacher makes right now. No performance pay, overtime premium pay, reimbursement or assistance…

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Scott Walker Strikes Again

There are a few things that have defined the Walker regime 1. He is perpetually less than honest 2. He has demonized public workers, especially teachers 3. He values people who work for him politically over all others. Now we have a story that Jud from UppityWI brings us a…

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Charter School Epic Fail

St. Louis is scrambling to find space for 3,500 students when 6 charter schools were forced to close due to poor student performance. More than 3,500 students will be displaced when a network of St. Louis charter schools run by Virginia-based Imagine Schools Inc. closes in what may be the…

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Lemon Law

Jud @ Uppity Wisconsin unearthed another gem, this time it was Scott Walker lying about what he planned to do to public education. can we finally put an end to the myth that recall here is not justified! Scott Walker promised us a Mustang convertible and we ended up with…

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WHY isnt it working?

Because It is NOT supposed to! As I pointed out recently, the fact that the Walker administration says they are “reforming” education, is a myth! In reality, while a teacher’s role in the classroom is incredibly important, it pales in comparison to other external factors a child confronts on a…

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Thank Goodness!

As everyone knows, Governor Walker and the republican legislature has cut $1.6 billion from public education. This will dramatically affect 410 out of 426 school districts in Wisconsin. If you want to know exactly how much funding was pulled from YOUR district, you can find that here. just a couple…

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