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Wisconsin State Journal:

Sometimes public education can be like the weather: Everybody wants to talk about it, but nobody ever does anything about it.

The school-focused Planning for Greatness initiative in Madison aims for talking, yes; but especially, the project aims for doing things to improve and revitalize our public education system.

The effort launched back in November, followed by a series of large-group discussions involving educators and community leaders. Now, Planning for Greatness is entering a key "next phase" moment, as those initial discussions have produced a series of eight key topics.

One smaller "study group" session has already been held -- on the topic of early childhood learning opportunities -- and the other seven study group sessions designed to dig into the priority topics start Monday.

All the topics make sense, and are critical to any desire to rethink how we do public education, and how our community is involved in that process. Planning for Greatness is first on a deep fact-finding mission -- which is what the upcoming study groups are all about -- and ultimately will make recommendations and proposals for improving our schools and the school/community interaction.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 10, 2012 1:53 AM
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