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 […]
Students Protest to Support Dismissed Security Guard
Zero-tolerance has got to go; that’s one of the chants from a student walk-out last Friday protesting the firing of West High School security guard Marlon Anderson. Students and staff marched over two miles from West High School to the downtown school district administration building in protest, circling the building several times while chanting “Bring […]
Civil Rights Attorney Seeks School Board Seat
The Madison School Board is down a member after Mary Burke abruptly quit last week. And they’ve got a lot of work to do. They’ve got a new superintendent to hire — and are gearing up to ask voters for several hundred million dollars to repair the aging high school buildings. Of the remaining members, […]
Madison, First Week of July 1969
In a year already beset by campus strikes and off-campus riots, no wonder it rains on the Fourth of July. There’s even an early morning squall so strong it sends tree branches crashing down and flattening an 880 square foot tent at Warner Park. It’s put back up, and the weather clears by afternoon, as […]
