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Manski’s Faux Run

David Blaska reports. You have to love good ol’ “progressive” Madison.

Ms. Mirilli reached out to this blog today to confirm that Sarah Manski was, indeed, recruited to run against her – and her, specifically. The Madison School Board candidate, defeated in last week’s three-way primary, said the Manskis spread a rumor that she was recruited by the Great Right Conspiracy to run as a stalking horse for school vouchers. News to me!

Forty-eight hours after taking out the troublesome minority candidate – her job accomplished – Sarah Manski withdrew from the race, assured that the school board would appoint “somebody good” if it came to that. (Matt DeFour’s reportage here.)

The Manski campaign was fueled by plenty of big-name Democrats, including the Democrat(ic) leaders in the Wisconsin State Assembly and Senate, Peter Barca and Chris Larson, even though they’re from Kenosha and Milwaukee, respectively. (I detailed that here.) It is also clear that the Manski candidacy and the Madison School Board election itself was, to these Democrats and unionistas, a partisan battle against Gov. Scott Walker, and forget about addressing Madison’s yawning minority achievement gap.

Posted by Owen at 1918 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

1. The saddest thing is, though liberals think of it as the great bogeyman to scare everyone, I would openly support private corporate takeovers of school.  Corporations would always support teaching basic skills and job skills, both of which are sadly lacking today in public education.  They would not teach that dependency is a right. 

   In the name of efficiency, this would take education costs off the public table.  Heck, if most every kid was issued a tablet(american made and supported), the best 1000 or so teachers in America could be teaching 70-80 percent of kids.  The great goal of socialization has already been supplanted by technology today.  What good are public or even many private schools?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 28, 2013 at 0757 hrs
   
   
   

2. Heck, if most every kid was issued a tablet(american made and supported)

   I suppose you believe in the tooth fairy as well?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 28, 2013 at 0820 hrs
   
   
   

3. You might be right, Tuerqas, but those “best 1000 or so teachers” would need to make way, way more money than they are now, if for no other reason than you would want to attract the best educators possible.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 28, 2013 at 1030 hrs
   
   
   

4. I suppose you believe in the tooth fairy as well?

   Wait, don’t you?

   VAP, Locke is right from a reality standpoint, but if a perfect world were set up and there were say 25 teachers with distinctly different styles and offerings of each subject at each grade and those 3,000 or so teachers each had 10-20+ full time ‘TAs’ to answer questions, etc. and they served even 1/3 to half of all students, you are damned right they deserve more than current paygrades.  Since you would be taking away the ‘combat pay’ aspect, though, I would think the 200k range would be fair.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 01, 2013 at 1350 hrs
   
   
   

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