Madison, September, 1961 In mid- September, urban renewal of the Greenbush goes into high gear as the the Madison Redevelopment Authority approves a land acquisition policy of paying the higher of two appraisals, and sets purchase offers for 121 Triangle parcels. It quickly buys its first property in the Triangle— an income property at 120 […]
Madison in the Sixties – Race and Classrooms
Madison in the Sixties – race and classrooms On May 4, 1960 Members of the Mayor’s Commission on Human Rights have an inconclusive meeting with Superintendent Philip Falk about why he has not offered a full- time position to substitute teacher Sloan Williams or any other Black teachers. Falk says that two offers had been […]
Madison, the second week of January, 1968
Madison in the Sixties – the second week of January, 1968 On the morning of the eighth, the Wisconsin State Journal publishes an editorial about the thirty or so families of Hispanic migrant workers who have arrived here from Texas and Mexico since last fall, calling on the Madison community to give them financial, emotional […]
Madison – the 1967/68 school year
Madison in the Sixties — the 1967/68 school year. As the school year begins, a majority of teachers have no classroom experience. And due to the continuing pay gap, only a third of the individual teaching contracts offered are accepted. The new school year brings new disciplinary problems—in the first four months of the 1967–1968 […]
Madison, 1965 – the School System
Madison in the Sixties – the public schools, 1965 The new school year opens with almost 32,000 youngsters in the public schools, ranging from 203 at Cherokee elementary to almost twenty-two hundred at West Senior High. But the numbers are not good at Madison’s first high school. On September 8, the fifty- seventh anniversary of […]
Madison students learn from home
Among cancellations on high school calendars today are a National Honors Society induction at East, Diversity Week at La Follette, and an orchestra concert at West. But for some Madison students who have been enrolled in band, they might not have instruments to use during class. Peter Kuzma, arts education coordinator for the Madison school […]
