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Madison Metropolitan School Board President Ali Muldrow will hold on to her seat on the board despite a write-in campaign hoping to unseat her.

The Madison school board elections in April include one competitive race, an incumbent seeking a second term, and a familiar face running for an open seat.

The Madison school board elections in April include one competitive race, an incumbent seeking a second term, and a familiar face running for an open seat.

Like many school districts, Madison is facing a staffing shortage and struggling to keep in-person classes going during the pandemic. But critics say years of district leadership not supporting teachers has turned a short-term problem into a full-blo

Voters can expect to see only a few contested races on their ballots this spring.

 After seeing the social media outrage over the weekend, a trans, nonbinary teaching artist in Madison has stepped up to run against Walters.

MADISON, Wis. — When the weekend started, Mary Jo Walters of Madison was running for a school board seat in the Madison Metropolitan School District unchallenged. Today, Shepherd Janeway has changed that. “I’m trans-a-phobic,” Walters said in social media comments over the weekend, describing her platform. Calling herself gender critical, she said in an interview on Monday that it was...