Education

I no longer have faith that anything I write about the schools will be correct.  Here's what they claim is their legal notice for meetings this week.

Local government meetings go virtual and boards of canvassers resemble a famous physics cat, in this episode of Forward Lookout for April 6, 2020.

I sure hope so! But they are off to a terrible start.  They already met in closed session yesterday.  And plan more closed session meetings.

$95M is coming to the County, $24.4M for our bus system, $1.1M in CDBG funds, Small Businesses (including nonprofits) to get forgivable Payroll Protection loans, we've been declared a federal disaster area and more on the way?  Who decides where that money will go?

Public Input meeting on ??, Instruction Work Group Meeting and elections related meeting.

After meetings this week, neither the City Council nor the County Board will meet until April 21st (3 weeks), School Board not meeting until the 27th (4 weeks)?  Each body will meet only once in April.  The mayor seems to be the only decision maker at the city at this point, with the council rubber stamping decisions. What roles should our alders, supervisors and school board members be playing in this pandemic?  How are they representing us in this crisis?

Madison School Board will be meeting via Zoom.  No public appearance - only by written registration.

The longer version than what you will you on WORT - Many government meetings are cancelled due to the coronavirus response. WORT's Dylan Brogan gets the latest from Brenda Konkel on what meetings are still conveying and what comes next.

At the press conference on Friday, School Board President Gloria Reyes said they still plan to meet on Monday because they have important things to do, but I don't see it on the legal notice.

The long version of what you can hear every Monday on WORT's evening news - the chatty version.

The legal notice for this week's meetings is not on the Madison School Board website.  So I only can find one meeting - referendum questions and budget priority actions.

Audio version of the three Week Ahead Posts and longer version than you will hear on WORT 89.9 on the Monday evening news.