{"id":114,"date":"2004-03-18T22:17:54","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T22:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2004-03-18T22:17:54","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T22:17:54","slug":"madison_school_board_needs_diversity_robarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Madison School Board Needs Diversity &#8211; Robarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/captimes\/news\/stories\/70452.php\">Lee Sensenbrenner writes<\/a> about Wednesday&#8217;s School Board Candidate Statements to the Madison Rotary Club:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Given six unfettered minutes to explain to the Madison Downtown Rotary why she is seeking re-election to the Madison School Board, Ruth Robarts said that with or without her, the school district has sharp divisions.<br \/>\n&#8220;I think it&#8217;s wishful thinking that says removing me from the board will heal this divide, and we&#8217;ll go forward in a unified way,&#8221; she said during Wednesday&#8217;s meeting. &#8220;I think now, in a very real way, our board needs a diversity of viewpoints. To grow confidence in the board, we need to have a full debate of issues and approaches.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Cap Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/captimes\/opinion\/editorial\/70426.php\">Editorial Page comments<\/a> on the role of the School Board vis a vis the Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Sensenbrenner writes about Wednesday&#8217;s School Board Candidate Statements to the Madison Rotary Club: Given six unfettered minutes to explain to the Madison Downtown Rotary why she is seeking re-election to the Madison School Board, Ruth Robarts said that with or without her, the school district has sharp divisions. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s wishful thinking that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}