It has been another busy summer for Region 6. I’m not just talking about the things most teachers do in the summer but don’t get credit for in the “teachers get three months off” mythology. Almost every teacher I know spends summers earning credits, planning lessons, attending conferences and developing themselves as professionals. Many of […]
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Scott Walker interrupted his presidential campaign ever so briefly to sign a state budget one newspaper has deemed “awful” this week. The budget short-changes schools, children, workers, the economy and the future. And that’s just for starters. We have written a lot about the budget over the last several months, so if you want specifics […]
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Legendary Wisconsin journalist Dave Zweifel devoted a column to WEAC Region 6 last week. The Capital Times column focuses on the strength of our union while it also criticizes the anti-education and anti-labor policies of Governor Walker and the Legislature. Zweifel’s article is paired with a great cartoon from award winning labor cartoonist Mike Konopacki […]
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Hundreds gathered to rally for public education Monday afternoon in Sun Prairie and cities throughout Wisconsin. The Republican budget is an abomination, and we are not the only ones who have noticed. Those in attendance on Monday included students, parents, retirees, college students, and locally elected officials as well as educators. Many of the people […]
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The bad news is that with each passing day our elected officials reach a new low. Whether it is cutting school funding, lowering teacher standards, privatizing public schools or inventing new ways to interfere with what is working in the classroom, the Legislature just keeps increasing the pace in the race to the bottom. The […]
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The budget the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) has passed onto the Legislature restores some of the money that Scott Walker cut from public schools, but in many other ways takes a very bad thing and makes it even worse. Many of us wouldn’t have thought that possible. Now we have to fight against JFC’s budget […]
Read More...The Region 6 representative assembly (RA) is set for May 30 in Madison, and the annual WEAC RA was held a couple of weekends ago in Milwaukee. Last year’s Region 6 RA saw the creation of our new organization and set the parameters for this first, highly successful, year. If you are not a Region […]
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The news out of Washington that the reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) has moved out of the education committee and onto the Senate floor is good news indeed. The changes the Senate committee is recommending would be a marked improvement upon the disaster that is the so-called No Child Left Behind Law (NCLB). […]
Read More...Martin Luther King Jr. and others have keenly observed that the arc of history is long, “but it bends toward justice.” It is a way of saying that good ideas usually win—but not always right away. Four years ago, our union and others organized some of the largest and most sustained pro-labor rallies this nation […]
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Election results do not happen by accident. Almost every election is a mixed bag, but yesterday’s elections were quite good for Region 6. That is because we worked hard and succeeded. The results are still coming in, but we already know the overwhelming majority of the pro-education candidates and referendum initiatives that were recommended by […]
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