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Legal group: Beloit Schools has shelved race-based teaching scholarship program
Beloit Schools is apparently yanking a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion-based scholarship program for budding teachers. It comes as the district faces legal threats from a statewide legal group over claims the program promotes racial discrimination. Cara Tolliver is a lawyer for the conservative legal advocacy group Wisconsin Institute for Law...
Beloit School District rescinds scholarship’s Racial eligibility criterion following WILL’s legal threat
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) has been notified by the School District of Beloit that it will reconfigure its “Grow Your Own Multicultural Teacher Scholarship Program” (GYO) to ...
Janesville School District to host career fair July 30 – 31
Janesville School District’s second summer job fair in as many years could help bring new blood into about two-dozen open teaching positions. The fair’s coming up at the end of this month. Assistant superintendent and HR director Scott Garner says the district seeks to about 26 teaching vacancies.
Winners of the Wisconsin Agriculture in the Classroom Essay Contest announced
Eleanor Jones-Sato and Bree Stalsberg have a way with words. The Wisconsin grade school students were selected as state winners in the Wisconsin Agriculture in the Classroom essay contest. The entries submitted by Eleanor and Bree were chosen from among 1,400 entries submitted by Wisconsin fourth and fifth grade students tasked with writing a 500-word essay with the theme, "Wisconsin Agriculture is Fruit-full!"
Transportation Builders Association: Milton teen awarded June Work Zone Safe scholarship
MADISON, Wis. – A south-central Wisconsin teenager is the latest young driver to dedicate his. time and attention to ensuring the men and women working behind orange barrels in work. zones make it home safely to their families every night. Monday, the Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association (WTBA) awarded Dakoda...
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