“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” Louis Brandeis, a future U.S. Supreme Court justice, wrote
Ugly November memories, COVID worries, public input
Several members of the board shared that they still have emotional âscarsâ from the Nov. 9, 2020, meeting of the school board, during which demonstrators shut down the meeting and yelled at elected officials before police arrived and the room was cleared, with a brief protest continuing outside.
Demonstrators calling for anti-racism to be included in the Burlington Area School District s policies and curriculums shut down the School Board s meeting on Monday, Nov. 9, when the School Board didn t immiediately take up the anti-racism proposal following nearly an hour of public comment. Here s what happened before, during and after the meeting was shut down and the School Board left Karcher Middle School s library before half of the meeting s agenda was exhausted.
One day after public release of a state report saying Burlington schools have become a "racially hostile environment," school board members voice regret and say they will work to correct
BURLINGTON — Rosanne Hahn of the Burlington Area School Board was elected second vice president of the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards Jan. 20.