GOP members introduce bills banning Critical Race Theory
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MADISON (WKOW) A series of Republican-backed bills would ban particular lessons on race in K-12 schools, colleges, and in training for government workers.
The bill s authors introduced them Thursday at the Capitol, continuing a trend of conservative lawmakers taking aim at lessons involving Critical Race Theory, which argue many of the country s foundational tenets are rooted in racism.
The bills include a set of restrictions on types of lessons that would be banned; in some cases, they re open to interpretation which critics say could flood school boards with complaints.
Across the three bills, lessons and training could not make some feel as though they re at fault for the past actions of people who were of the same race or gender.21-3355 1
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By Madalyn O Neill
May 24, 2021 | 7:17 PM
MADISON, Wis. – The pandemic shook things up for all of us: how we work, play and learn. When many schools switched to virtual learning, many families and their students switched schools. Those who didn’t often had to learn a whole new way of schooling.
Going to a new school isn’t easy, especially when you never set foot in the building.
“It was hard,” sixth-grader Presley Rhindfleisch said. “It was like standing in a room of strangers.”
She started middle school over Zoom, finding little to praise about virtual learning.
“There wasn’t really anything to like about it,” she said.
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Madison Jazz Society is Set to Dissolve Close Close Close
The non-profit Madison Jazz Society was created in 1984 with the mission to preserve and promote traditional jazz. That’s jazz from early rag-time and up to the 1950s.
In March, the board of directors voted unanimously to dissolve the organization, leaving one less outlet for jazz in Madison. Many members of the jazz community found out in a recent newsletter.
Long-time president Lori Marty Schmitz points to membership as a main reason for the decision. “We’re losing members by attrition–by attrition i mean dying off, and their not being replaced,” explains Marty Schmitz. “Many of members are, as my doctor a while ago, upper middle age and don’t have the energy or physical capacity to do what needs to be done to keep the organization going.”