Authorities filed a criminal complaint Friday against former Portage High School English teacher Abby Dibbs, charging her with two counts of sexual assault of a student by school staff
A letter from the U.S. Department of Education to Governor Tony Evers and Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction confirms that the state's plan to count $350 million put into a rainy day fund as increased school spending would jeopardize $1.5 billion in federal school aid.
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“Virtual education is not working.”
Parents in tears, often angry, asked these questions of school board members across the state. They described how their children are in despair and have given up on virtual education. Some have been become suicidal.
Has virtual education been a major failure? Is it time to end it or are there useful lessons to learn from virtual education?
Janice Mertes has seen the frustration coming from school districts in her role as Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning. She oversees digital, blended, and virtual education. She believes that next year “most schools understand that they are going to have to have a virtual learning option.”
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.