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Speakers
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Kathleen Murphy,
Health Services Coordinator for Milwaukee
Public Schools and a board member of the
Wisconsin Association of School Nurses.
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Kurt Handrich, pastor
of the Calvary Lutheran Church in Beloit.
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Richard Pike, Appleton
Area School District Board of Education
member.
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Dennis Oulahan, Milwaukee
Public Schools teacher and Milwaukee Teachers
Education Association officer.
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Adequacy is the Watchword of the Task Force Meeting and
Hearing in Milwaukee
The Adequacy model of school finance was the hot topic, Dec.
11, 2003, at a meeting of the Governor's Task Force on Educational
Excellence in the auditorium of the Milwaukee Area Technical
College. This was the third meeting of the group and the second
that included public testimony.
Members heard from school-finance expert and University of
Wisconsin-Madison professor Allan Odden during the morning.
He explained the shift in school funding nationwide to Adequacy
as a shift to finding out what works for children and how
much it costs. It's a question of "how much money is
needed to teach all students to (specific) performance levels,"
he said.
From 2:30 to 7:30 p.m., Task Force members heard public testimony,
including statements from many partners in WAES. Their message,
as it was in Wausau in November, was loud and clear: Children
all over the state are losing educational opportunities and
seeing their futures dimming because of Wisconsin's complicated,
unfair, and inadequate school-funding formula. Many of those
who testified made reference to the coalition, and many more
promoted the Adequacy model.
Read the full testimonies of some WAES members from
Dec. 11:
- Cynthia
DiCamelli, Wisconsin PTA President, Oregon School Board
Clerk, CESA 2 Board of Control Vice-Chair
- Ellen
Figueira, Project ABC, Waukesha
- School
District of Janesville, Joint Legislative Committee—Commissioner
Virginia Wyss and Janesville Education Association President
David Parr, Co-Chairs
- Dianne
Lang, Appleton Education Association President
- Ann
Riojas, Milwaukee Public Schools Nursing Supervisor
- Cynthia
Roach, school nurse and Mequon parent
- Karyn
Rotker, American Civil Liberties Union, Poverty, Race &
Civil Liberties Project Attorney
- Jeffrey
Spitzer-Resnick, Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy Managing
Attorney
- Ken
Volante, Madison Teachers Inc. Executive Assistant for Labor
Relations
- Lori
Zahorodny, Save Tosa Schools, Wauwatosa
- Kathy
Zingsheim, WAES Representative, West Allis-West Milwaukee
Subcommittees dealing with staff retention, the achievement
gap, special education, and early childhood education also
held their first sessions. The Task Force scheduled future
subcommittee meetings, as well as another public hearing in
LaCrosse or Platteville in January.
Click
here for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article.
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