The tragedy of Madison’s public schools is that the minority-race students it valorizes are the ones who suffer most from its disempowering Woke racism. For its failures, the seven school board members are poised to reward itself with pay raises, health insurance, and out-of-town junkets. They meet tonight starting at 6 p.m. to consider:
• Almost doubling their annual pay to $15,000 from the current $8,000 and $200 for out-of-town retreats [UPDATE: Passed 6-0 with Pearson abstaining]
• Getting staff-level, taxpayer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance; [UPDATE: Voted down unanimously]
• $3,500/year each member for professional development. [UPDATE: Defeated 5 to 2; Nichols, Mosner Feltham voted for it.]
Proving once again, big gummint is the Left’s sugar daddy.
Board member Savior Castro justifies the goodies to make Madison’s school board “more accessible to the folks that look like the students and the families of the district,” according to Chris Rickert’s excellent reporting, rather than the despised “older, whiter, wealthier folks.” That’s straight-up, burning-cross racism but bashing whitey is still in fashion among Madison’s chardonnay progressives.
Of course, five of the seven members are minorities, all are young, none are wealthy and (for good measure) he is the only he.
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She also noted that six of the seven board members are women and a majority of members are people of color, and that “devaluing our labor has a historical connotation and reality to it that we have to confront.”
The additional compensation is expected to cost $60,100 annually, and also includes increases to what members are paid for attending board retreats. They will now get $100 each for attending and participating in half-day board retreats and $200 for attending and participating in full-day retreats.
According to research by district administration, Milwaukee School Board members make $18,121, Kenosha members make $6,500, Green Bay members make $7,538.40 and Racine members make $3,600. Madison, with approximately 25,500 students, is the state’s second-largest district after Milwaukee.
She asked her fellow board members not to bring the item up for discussion again for the next few years.
“My hope is that, were we to bring this up again publicly, we would have a greater exploration of what an alternative option would look like that would put us in alignment with other elected officials who are insured through their position as elected officials,” Muldrow said.
Board President Nichelle Nichols said she also intended to vote against the proposal.
“As much as I liked the sentiment of the amendment … I wanted to make sure that if board members were eligible that we did not find ourselves in a compromised position around being able to make the kinds of decisions that we need to make for employees,” Nichols said.
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Did taxpayer funded Wisconsin DPI Superintendent Underly Juice Test Scores for Reelection?
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