The last thing higher education — or American society and politics — needs is a further retreat from rural and small town America. But that’s exactly what’s happening. Yesterday the UW announced that it was closing its two-year Waukesha campus. That brings to five the number of two-year institutions that the UW will be shutteringContinue reading “The Rural Retreat”
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MMSD Underperforms
If things go as planned the Madison school district will have a new superintendent named by the end of this month. From the limited information available it looks to me as if there’s one very good candidate, one really bad candidate and one candidate likely to be picked for all the wrong reasons. But IContinue reading “MMSD Underperforms”
A Quick Take on Candidates for Madison Schools Chief
The Madison School Board has selected three finalists from a pool of 60 candidates. Credit the board for attracting a fairly large candidate pool. According to this morning’s Wisconsin State Journal, and supplemented with some of my own quick online research, here’s what we know about the finalists. Yvonne Stokes served for only two yearsContinue reading “A Quick Take on Candidates for Madison Schools Chief”
The Catch Up: Audit School of Education
It was a week where both Gov. Tony Evers and Speaker Robin Vos were right and where the Packers were oh so very right. Evers is right. In an interview last week with the Associated Press Gov. Tony Evers said that he thought Donald Trump should remain on the Wisconsin primary ballot. Evers acknowledged theContinue reading “The Catch Up: Audit School of Education”
Yellow Stripes & Dead Armadillos 