Last night, the Madison Board of Education considered a potential change to their surveillance and electronic monitoring policy – which hasn’t been updated in more than two decades. The change would prohibit the use of hidden cameras within all Madison Metropolitan School District buildings. The proposed policy comes after a 2019 incident in which some […]
Madison school board approves employee handbook changes
The Madison school board voted four to three last night to approve changes to the district’s employee handbook. The changes mean a switch to how the district reviews its teachers for personnel decisions. Notably, the changes remove seniority as the sole factor determining which teachers get laid off first. Under the new policies, seniority would […]
New Report Records 1,200 Restraint or Seclusion Incidents at Madison S...
Madison schools restrained or confined students more than 1,200 times during the last school year. Over 200 of those incidents involved students with disabilities. That’s according to a report released this week by the state’s Department of Public Instruction. The report, which was released on Tuesday, shows that nearly half of Wisconsin’s 2,248 schools restrained […]
Madison School Board Approves Two Budgets Ahead of Referendum
In a 6-1 vote on Monday, the School Board for the Madison Metropolitan School District approved two budgets for the upcoming school year. The first budget uses known revenue if the upcoming referenda fail, while a second “passing budget” uses money if they succeed and add $350 million for the school board to use. The […]
See Maps: Hong, Roys, Baldeh, Sargent win fall primary
Maps by Jade Iseri-Ramos and Martin Rakacolli. “I think I’m okay,” says Francesca Hong. Last night she beat out six other challengers in the Democratic primary to represent downtown Madison, for the state Assembly seat formerly occupied for nearly a decade by Representative Chris Taylor. “You’d think like a couple of hours after, I’d be more […]
Meet Assembly District 76 Candidates Ali Maresh and Nicki Vander Meule...
Today, we continue our interview series with the eight candidates running to represent Assembly District 76 in the Wisconsin State Legislature, which covers downtown Madison (see the full map here). In this episode, we meet candidates Ali Maresh and Nicki Vander Meulen. Wisconsin is holding its partisan primary election on Tuesday, August 11. The general […]
