{"id":7869,"date":"2020-03-22T06:28:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T12:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2020-03-22T06:29:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T12:29:16","slug":"2020-madison-school-board-election-candidate-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7869","title":{"rendered":"2020 Madison School Board Election Candidate Discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/education\/local_schools\/madison-school-board-candidates-say-respective-backgrounds-make-them-best\/article_d1a3cdd9-2677-5bb6-bdac-c76f45abb29a.html\">Logan Wroge (Gomez &#8211; Schmidt vs Pearson)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pearson views full-day 4K and incorporating other cultures into classroom curriculum \u2014 \u201coutside of one month\u201d \u2014 as strategies to close the gap.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Gomez Schmidt sees a new reading curriculum for kindergarten through fifth grade as crucial in improving outcomes, along with \u201crelevant and rigorous\u201d coursework at the middle and high school levels.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/education\/local_schools\/madison-school-board-incumbent-challenge-has-both-candidates-looking-for\/article_fbd34b99-cd7c-5af8-bbf0-5b5788d5e7fa.html\">Nicki Vander Meulen and Wayne Strong<\/a>):<\/p>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box\">\n<blockquote><p>Strong, a retired Madison police lieutenant, lost a close board race in 2013 and by a larger margin the following year. When Vander Meulen was first elected in 2017, she and incumbent Ed Hughes were the top two vote-getters in a three-way primary, but Hughes dropped out of the race before the general election.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"asset-breakout-container \" style=\"box-sizing: border-box\">\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box\">\n<blockquote><p>If elected to a second term, Vander Meulen, 41, said she wants to prioritize the \u201cinexcusable\u201d achievement gap, boosting \u201cshameful\u201d reading scores and improving graduation rates for students with disabilities \u2014 50% of students with disabilities graduated on time last spring.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Strong has two main priorities if he joins the board: Putting a \u201claser focus\u201d on what is causing students to receive out-of-school suspensions and reducing the disproportionate rate of black students who receive those suspensions and ensuring schools are safe for students and teachers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf the school climate is such that our kids don\u2019t feel safe, they\u2019re not going to be productive,\u201d the 60-year-old Strong said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Much more on the April 7, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolinfosystem.org\/e\/2020\/\">2020 Madison School Board election, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logan Wroge (Gomez &#8211; Schmidt vs Pearson): Pearson views full-day 4K and incorporating other cultures into classroom curriculum \u2014 \u201coutside of one month\u201d \u2014 as strategies to close the gap. Gomez Schmidt sees a new reading curriculum for kindergarten through fifth grade as crucial in improving outcomes, along with \u201crelevant and rigorous\u201d coursework at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869"}],"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=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7871,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions\/7871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}