I originally intended to fit something like this into the previous episode, but it clearly is too big. But here I'm talking about why local control of schools matters for us as citizens, what the state ought to be doing to invest in the cultivation of civic virtue, what districts can be doing to facilitate good conversations about schools, and ultimately, our own obligations as citizens to participate in the good governance of our public schools.

LINKS:

Wauwatosa's financial transparency page.

Zerilli's Democratic Theory of Judgment

Scribner's The Fight for Local Control

Weinstein's Adam Smith's Pluralism

Neem's Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America

Arendt's The Human Condition

Cavell's The Claim of Reason

Cavell's Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome

So, I got mad, and I had to use the bleep button a few times.

Here, moving backward through time, is media coverage of the budget as it has developed:

Today's update. (July 1)

JFC's June 13th plan.

Budget negotiations reach an impasse (June 4)

JFC starts over from scratch (May 9)

Evers's budget proposal (Feb 26)

Links!

First, just put down your name and email here if you're interested in participating in the book group at all. I'll follow up with details. Here are the two books:

Manny Teodoro's Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government, and

Amanda Lewis and John Diamond's Despite the Best Intentions (2nd edition)

2030 Task Force links:

2030 Task Force website

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Open Records hub

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