Education
TEACHER SHORTAGE IN WISCONSIN
For a long time, teachers have been blamed for the shortcomings of public education.
Teachers have been villainized and given many new hoops to jump through. Is it any wonder that a shortage of teachers exists?
Some teachers have left Wisconsin for Minnesota. Other teachers have left the profession. College students are choosing careers other than education.
Tony Evers, state superintendent of public instruction in Wisconsin, spoke at the Wisconsin Public Education Network Summit in Wauwatosa about the teacher shortage. Hundreds of Wisconsin supporters of public ...
HOW CAN WE SUPPORT WISCONSIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS? ATTEND THE SUMMER SUMMIT ON AUGUST 23
HOW CAN WE SUPPORT WISCONSIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
ATTEND THE SUMMER SUMMIT ON AUGUST 23
By WIS. PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23
8:30 A.M.
WAUWATOSA, WISCONSIN
We need you to help us make our Summer Summit the education event of the year. This is our opportunity to come together to connect, learn, and strategize.
What can we do where we live to support Wisconsin public schools? What can we do together as a statewide coalition? How can we maximize our impact? What's happening right now that we need most to understand and connect around?
At the ...
HOW CAN WE SUPPORT WISCONSIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
HOW CAN WE SUPPORT WISCONSIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
ATTEND THE SUMMER SUMMIT ON AUGUST 23
By WIS. PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23
8:30 A.M.
WAUWATOSA, WISCONSIN
We need you to help us make our Summer Summit the education event of the year. This is our opportunity to come together to connect, learn, and strategize.
What can we do where we live to support Wisconsin public schools? What can we do together as a statewide coalition? How can we maximize our impact? What's happening right now that we need most to understand and connect around?
At the ...
EDUCATION BY EXCLUSION
Phase 1: 26 years ago, education by exclusion was wrapped in the camouflage of "parental choice". Charter schools were touted as citadels of best practice, hotbeds of innovation, and a much-needed alternative to "failing" public schools. The courts determined that as long as taxpayer money (vouchers) went to the child and not the school, such public support for religious and other private education did not violate the constitution. The bulging public pocket was now open for picking.
But, the privatizers had a problem: public schools were not failing fast enough, and in ...
AUSTERITY IS THE ENDGAME
Austerity is the endgame, the final subjugation. It is the offspring of Ronald Reagan’s corrupt ideology that “government is the problem” and Bill Clinton’s corrupt deregulation of Wall Street - - the unholy marriage of neocon and neolib. It is the weapon of the oligarchy, the instrument of bondage and control.
We are in a rigged game, a game designed to transfer money upward while blaming all things public for our impoverishment, a game designed to starve government of the people while sparing nothing for government of the corporation. It is a game that ...
THE MANY BENEFITS OF UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MARATHON COUNTY
The University of Wisconsin system was the topic of an event hosted by D.J. and Mary Clare Freeman featuring Mandy Wright, a candidate for the 85th Assembly District; Katie Kalish, an Associate Dean and English faculty member at UW-MC; and Noel Radomski from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Katie Kalish has been part of the UW system since 2006. The guiding principle of the Wisconsin Idea is to reach every family in the state. The 13 UW campuses reach students and their families all across the state.
The UW-Marathon Campus is one of the Access Institutions. One ...
BUDGET CUTS AND THE WISCONSIN IDEA
“In many ways a cut of this size feels like a betrayal from Wisconsin,’ he (University of Eau Claire Chancellor James Schmidt) recalled telling faculty early this year (in 2015), when the looming statewide cuts were predicted at $300 million. It also feels like a death in the family.’” “Schmidt said they’ve had just as big of a negative impact on campus morale.”
Over the past five years, the University of Wisconsin System has seen budget cuts of $500 million. In the 2011-2013 budget, $250 million was cut from the UW System. An additional $250 million was ...
HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE CORPORATE ASSAULT ON PUBLIC EDUCATION TO FRIENDS WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT?
HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE CORPORATE ASSAULT ON PUBLIC EDUCATION TO FRIENDS WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT?
Diane Ravitch received an email from a daily reader of her blog who asked her how she could explain the downside of corporate reform to friends at a dinner party in the suburbs who know nothing at all about the issues. She said that her friends were liberal Democrats, but their own children are grown, and they don't read the blogs. What could she say that was direct, accurate, and informative?
They exchanged emails and began creating a list explanatory comments. The ...
WALK-IN FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Last September, Milwaukee educators, parents, students and community citizens showed their support for public schools in Milwaukee when they held walk-ins at over 100 public schools in Milwaukee. As a result, school takeover attempts were stopped.
The county executive and takeover commissioner publicly committed to support MPS and took over only one empty building.
On Wednesday, February 17, 2016, the movement goes national as families and educators at over 700 schools – in Wisconsin and across the nation – walk in. Together people are standing up against school ...
