Inclusion – Spring 1996
Site-Based Management – Spring 1996
Special Education: IDEA ’97 – April 1998
Special Ed Funding – April 1999
DPI Proposed Changes in Teacher Preparation and Licensing – January 2000
Merit Pay – April 2000
Special Education – February 2001
MTI Legislative Alert: Governor’s Budget & Revenue Limits – May 2001
MTI Legislative Alert: Special Education – May 2001
MTI Legislative Alert: Sage – May 2001
District Budget Impacts You – April 2010
Elementary Planning Time -May 2011
Issue Papers
MTI POLICY: INCLUSIONARY PRACTICES*
*Unanimously approved by the MTI Faculty Representative Council on April 16, 1996. MTI believes that Inclusion exists when student(s) with disability(ies) attend age appropriate regular education class(es), with appropriate support and funding. MTI believes that Inclusion is one option in the full continuum of services and full range of delivery models available to students with …
Site-Based Management (1996)
Background: Madison Schools 2000 is the strategic plan for the Madison Metropolitan School District. The plan consists of twelve “strategies” designed to achieve the plan goals. One of the strategies is “Participatory Management”. The Participatory Management strategy is designed to “involve all stakeholders in decision making” through the completion of a number of objectives. Included …
Special Education: IDEA ’97
March 5, 1999 The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) Amendments of 1997 represent the first major change of IDEA, since it was enacted three decades ago. The U.S. Department of Education reports that “prior to its implementation in 1975, approximately one million children with disabilities were shut out of schools and hundreds of thousands were …
MTI Issue Paper: Funding Crisis
Number One – Special Education Funding – April 1999 Introduction: This represents the first in a series of MTI Issue Papers on the current crisis in school funding. Since 1993, school district revenues have been limited by Wisconsin Act 16, the impact of which is being felt by school districts across the state. This issue …
MTI Issue Paper: DPI Proposed License Changes
January 2000 DPI PROPOSED CHANGES IN TEACHER PREPARATION AND LICENSING WISCONSIN IS #1 Teachers make a school district what it is. The better the teachers, the better the education offered to children. For many years, Wisconsin has ranked among the one or two top states nationwide in student achievement when measured by standardized tests – …
Merit Pay
\ IS PERFORMANCE BASED PAY IN OUR FUTURE? LET’S HOPE NOT! Those in government who would like to bring about the demise of public education in the interest of privatization have a multi-faceted approach. Among them is paying teachers based on the test scores of children. Plain and simple this is an attack on public …
MTI Issue Paper: Special Education
SPECIAL EDUCATION February 2001 Imagine . . . a dentist practicing without a license a surgeon operating without certification in the specialty a lawyer being expected to violate professional ethics Conditions For Special Education Teaching: CEC Commission Technical Report, October 2000. The findings, as reported in the Council for Exceptional Children’s two year study of …
MTI Legislative Alert: Governor’s Budget & Revenue Limits
MTI LEGISLATIVE ALERT The Governor’s Budget and Revenue Limits School districts across Wisconsin have been ham-strung by revenue controls since the State imposed them in 1993. The caps which stripped local school boards of their authority to budget according to the democratic process, have essentially froze spending by local school districts at 1992 levels. In …
MTI Legislative Alert: Special Education
MTI LEGISLATIVE ALERT Special Education Special education programs and services are mandated by both the state and federal governments. Unfortunately, resources to provide these mandated programs and services have not been accommodated by the legislated revenue controls. Congress authorized reimbursing at 40% of expenses, but for the 2000-01 school year have only provided money to …
MTI LEGISLATIVE ALERT: SAGE
MTI LEGISLATIVE ALERT!! Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) There is no better example of what makes classrooms effective than the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) program, which reduces class sizes in early grades, in low-income schools, and requires school districts to create and implement plans for improving student performance. For four successive years, …
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The Lamentable Tragedy of Scott Walker
