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The Dane County Library Service debuted its "Dream Bus" in April, and this fall it will regularly visit three Madison schools.
More than 1,000 students and staff walked out from the school Friday morning and marched to the Doyle Administration building nearly two miles away to protest Anderson’s firing this week..
As West High School students walked out of school Friday to protest the firing of a black Madison security guard for using the N-word to correct a student, the former employee got a major boost from an unexpected corner.
District officials vowed Friday better education on the use of the N-word and the harm it causes along with a review of policies that led to the West High School security guard being fired.
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"I need the district to answer the question of how can a black man lose his job for telling a student to not call him the N-word," said Marlon Anderson.
UW-Madison said it is investigating and that the signs "appear to be part of a protest calling attention to experiences of underrepresented students."
West High School students and staff are organizing walkouts Friday morning in support of Marlon Anderson, the security guard fired earlier this week.
Enrollment declined at eight of Wisconsin’s public four-year campuses and the two-year campuses collectively experienced a 25% drop.
The state Senate Education Committee approved 7-1 a proposal that would change how 4-year-old kindergarten students are counted if they attending a full-day program five days a week.
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Just eight higher education institutions in the country have earned the honor.
West High School security employee Marlon Anderson, who was fired this week, has filed a grievance appealing the decision. "We're fighting this," he said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has signed an agreement with a security systems company to begin beta testing a technology that would detect concealed weapons and potential threats on campus.
Two Madison high school students have organized a rally for menstrual equity for Saturday, Oct. 19, from 2-5 p.m. on the Capitol steps.
A West High School security officer terminated for using the n-word in front of a student says he was telling the student not to call him that word after an altercation.
A black security guard who was fired Wednesday said he used the n-word while defending himself from a student calling him the slur, but School District officials say there is a zero-tolerance policy on the use of racial slurs by employees.
UW-Madison Police will pilot Hexwave, which can detect weapons without slowing down large crowds in the way metal detectors often do at athletic events.
One City and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health will partner with a $1 million grant, announced Wednesday, for a five-year study of One City’s educational methods and student outcomes.
The Madison School District launched a survey Wednesday seeking input on the hire of its next superintendent.
Despite the university’s efforts to reduce the problem, more than a quarter of undergraduate women at UW-Madison who participated in a national survey said they had been sexually assaulted since entering college.
In Dane County, 281 students are using a voucher after three new private schools began participating this year in the programs.
Four Wisconsin teachers — from Middleton, Lodi, Clintonville and Bayfield — are among the 215 science and math teachers who will receive the award.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote that sexual assault numbers at UW-Madison remain “distressingly high.”
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