MAFAAC & Communities United School Board Candidate Forum Audio

MAFAAC (the Madison Area Family Advisory/Advocacy Committee) and Communities United (a broadly-based coalition of groups and individuals representing Madison's minority communities, and other citizens working on behalf of social justice and civil rights) held a school board candidate forum yesterday. MP3 Audio clips are avaible below:

• Opening Statements: [10.7MB mp3]
• Question 1: What do you think the causes are of the achievement gap? [7MB mp3]
• Question 2: What role do community groups play in addressing the achievement gap? [4MB mp3]
• Question 3: How would you rate the leadership of Superintendent Art Rainwater? [7.5MB mp3]
• Question 4: What are the sources of the discord, the disagreement on the board? [7.5MB mp3]
• Question 5: Barbara Golden Statement on Dissent, David (I could not catch his last name) has a question on the budget & Candidate Responses to the budget priorities. [6MB mp3]
• Question 6: Latinos Unite for Change in the Classroom. What are you going to do to support the needs of the ELL students? [3.5MB mp3]
• Question 7: The district insists that a young child go through an ESL program. The parents disagree. What is your role if someone brings you a case like this? [4.5MB mp3]
• Question 8: The chair of Communities United's Statement and Question: What specifically would you do to insure that there is equity in the (District's) programs. [8.5MB]
• Question 9: Audience questions regarding heterogeneous vs homogeneous classrooms; can people in the community who care about an issue like heterogeneity, get that in front of the school board? The way the board is currently comprised, the answer is no. [10.5MB mp3]
• Complete Event: 2 hours, 30 Minutes [65MB mp3]

Posted by James Zellmer at March 26, 2006 4:55 PM
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