Roseanne Kuemmel, a member of the Racine County Board of Canvassers responded to a comment made by a Democrat official that this is much ado about nothing: “We don’t feel that it’s nothing. I am very concerned seeing this stuff and we want to know why it is happening and prevent it from happening again…We’re very concerned with what we’ve seen during this recount. The sloppy handling of the ballots, it’s just atrocious.” Read More Racine Recount Recap
This could be a look into what 2013 may hold for the district when their teachers’ contract expires. MPS, unable to approach teachers and administrators for concessions to balance their budget, is instead relying on reform amongst their part-time employees. Is this the start of benefit reform that could provide a financial boost to the struggling district in time for the 2013-2014 school year? Read More Milwaukee Public Schools to Vote on Spending Plans Thursday Night
A Wisconsin Government Accountability Board official admits that poll workers in Racine did not follow the law when they allowed voters who registered on election day to obtain and cast ballots without signing the supplemental poll list.
That statement reinforced the one Haas gave the Maiver News Service earlier in the day when we reported on the errors. However, that same official now asserts that the discovery that thousands of individuals may have been mistakenly given ballots in the June 5th recall election should not disqualify their votes. Read More Clouds Gather Over City of Racine Election Procedures, Pollworkers
A check of databases conducted by the MacIver News Service reveals that as many as 73 of the 189 people who worked as official poll workers in the City of Racine last Tuesday may have earlier signed recall petitions that ultimately forced the elections to be conducted. Read More Did Several Racine Poll Workers Push for Recall of Wanggaard?
58 out of 1,183 qualifying public schools in Wisconsin earned the Priority label. Of these, 54 were from Milwaukee Public Schools. Two were from Racine, while one was from Green Bay and another was part of the Menominee Indian School District. 12 of these schools were high schools. Read More New Accountability Program Labels 98 Milwaukee Schools, 10 Madison Schools as “Focus” or “Priority” Schools in Need of Improvement
You turned this debate about the appropriate level of compensation and benefits for government workers into a crass and naked power grab.
But you failed. Read More The Biggest Lesson and Biggest Loser from the Recall
Last Friday a busload of students from Pulaski High School pulled up to the Zeidler Municipal Building here and more than two dozen students, accompanied by their teachers, voted during the early in-person absentee balloting period, many only using a printout of their class schedule to prove their identity. Read More Early Voting Students Use Class Schedules to Prove Residency, Not Identity, at Milwaukee Polls
“My grandpa can’t even tell you how old he is or what the date is,” said Johnny Koremenos, who is certain his grandpa did not request the forms he ultimately initialed.
Peter Koremenos’ application for Absentee Ballot was filled out on the same day he registered to vote, October 6, 2010. That form does list a witness on his application, Cathi Wright, who listed her address as the Linden Grove nursing home as well.
Who is Cathi Wright? Read More Vote Fraud Uncovered at Nursing Home?
The current differences between “Proficient” on the WKCE and “Proficient” on the NAEP are significant. Moderator Alan Borsuk’s opening statements made it clear that Wisconsin’s scores will drop significantly thanks to the new metric and the lack of comprehensiveness of the old one. As a result, student achievement scores are likely to drop significantly even if these students perform the same or even improve in the coming years. Read More Driscoll: New Student Standards a Tough Step in the Right Direction
A Sad Joke? A Sanitized Display of Socialist Anger? A Free Concert Posing as a Rally? Or All of the Above? By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute When we think of May Day, most of us… Read More May Day March in Milwaukee: