Education

From the MMSD legal notice. Hiring a Consulting firm to work with the permanent Superintendent Search Process and 2 (or 3?) other meetings

I sat through the Landmarks Committee meeting yesterday, and it was hard to stay in my seat and keep my mouth shut. I was stunned by the misinformation my own alder gave the committee about capital budget requests and the Edgewater TIF plan the council is voting on tonight.

Starts with the snowplowing updates, and can only get better from there!

Thanks to Arlene Silveira for the update on the Superintendent search . . . .Good evening, Tonight the Board met with our...

This isn't a surprise, but the agenda for Monday's Board of Education meeting includes a recommendation from the administration to instruct their rep on...

Big budget meetings this week in Dane County and Madison. Forward Lookout's Brenda Konkel and WORT's Dylan Brogan preview this week in local government.

So far there is either limited feedback or support according to the staff report.  It would raise taxes by an average of $69/year for a homeowner for Capital and $66/year for Operating Budget.

It was a brief discussion, happening at the same time as the Council "briefing" on TIF, but interesting in that they seem to think...

The holidays made for weird news, so I didn't want to resume yesterday with the rounds, so I'm starting today and will try to do it several times a week if not daily. I'm only going to do local politics, so until the student papers resume printing, it might be a little sparse.

Oh, I'm so busted. Good call on that one Erik. You should go read his post, and then mine will make more sense. And, because its a really good argument for how you can get involved with citizen journalism.

Last night was one of those nights that sucked to try to cover things in city hall. I managed to catch part of Landmarks, part of Plan, part of Landmarks again, park of Plan again and none of Board of Estimates. And, the kicker, my TiVo died so I couldn't compensate. Boo. Anyways, here's what Plan did on the Edgewater TID with bk comments.

The role and appropriateness of advertising in our society leave much room for debate - buses and billboards - to name a couple issues....