Clips from Madison Superintendent Dan Nerad's News Conference on Closed Schools & Teacher Job Action

Matthew DeFour: (watch the 15 minute conference here)

Madison School District Superintendent Dan Nerad discusses on Wednesday Gov. Scott Walker's bill, teacher absences, and Madison Teachers Inc.

Related:

• Sparks fly over Wisconsin budget's labor-related provisions (July, 2009)
• Isthmus event coverage roundup.
• WisPolitics Budget Blog
• Madison Teachers Website MTI PDF: At Issue Walker Attacks Public Employees MTI PDF: Events Week of 2/14/2011
• WEAC website
• NEA website
• Randi Weingarten
• AFT website
• Wisconsin, Tennessee seek sharpest curbs on collective bargaining by Susan Troller
• Wisconsin School boards association changes tune, fears harm from Walker bill
• Dane County's efforts to 'protect' employees likely to backfire by Jonathan Barry
• MATC OKs contract that preserves no-cost pensions
• Walker to gut Milwaukee Public Schools, break up UW, education leaders say
• Madison Mayor wants to rush on city employee contracts extension
• The Racine post
• With Wisconsin's QEO Gone, schools bargain harder on teachers' contracts, much more on the QEO, here
• Ripon Superintendent Richard Zimman: "the very public institutions intended for student learning has become focused instead on adult employment. I say that as an employee."
• Active Citizens for Education Statement
• Madison School District recent communications.
• Was Wednesday's 'sick out' by Madison teachers an illegal strike?
• Unions want to overturn election result.
• FDR: Public-sector unions must not be allowed to strike
• Democrat National Committee Playing a Role in Organizing the Protests
• Wisconsin State Tax Based K-12 Spending Growth Far Exceeds University Funding
  
  
  

Dave Baskerville is right on the money: Wisconsin needs two big goals:

For Wisconsin, we only need two:

Raise our state's per capita income to 10 percent above Minnesota's by 2030.
In job and business creation over the next decade, Wisconsin is often predicted to be among the lowest 10 states. When I was a kid growing up in Madison, income in Wisconsin was some 10 percent higher than in Minnesota. Minnesota caught up to us in 1967, and now the average Minnesotan makes $4,500 more than the average Wisconsinite.

Lift the math, science and reading scores of all K-12, non-special education students in Wisconsin above world-class standards by 2030. (emphasis added)

Wisconsinites often believe we lose jobs because of lower wages elsewhere. In fact, it is often the abundance of skills (and subsidies and effort) that bring huge Intel research and development labs to Bangalore, Microsoft research centers to Beijing, and Advanced Micro Devices chip factories to Dresden.

Grow the economy (tax base) and significantly improve our schools....

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 17, 2011 6:00 AM
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