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A local group has achieved $19,000, or almost 50% of their initial fund-raising goal to save the High School Aquatics Facility from being a future district budget casualty.
WB Schools Need Pools, a group of community residents who formed after the Sept. 2009 loss of Badger Middle School Pool, believes their plans in cooperation with the [...]
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“Save the Pool” Fund Drive at 50% of First Goal
Proposal for School Funding Reform From DPI
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers has a new proposal for school finance reform. The proposal largely is based on repealing the school levy credit and putting that money into state equalization aid instead. It also focuses on giving more state aid to districts with a larger percentage of low income students and guaranteeing [...]
Combining of West Bend High Schools Back on Agenda
At the June 21 West Bend School Board meeting, the information was presented to the School Board on the new figures for savings with combining of the 2 High Schools. The savings, after a transitional year, is expected to be $382,900. See the School District website for the full document explaining the rationale behind combining [...]
Legislative Agenda- WBSD Asks For Relief
Dr Pat Herdrich, Superintendent of West Bend Schools, and the leadership team presented a summary to the School Board at the June 21 meeting of their requests and recommendations to the State Legislature. The document included discussion of the negative impact of the School Levy credit on school funding and the unsustainability of the revenue [...]
Preliminary Budget Passed By School Board
The West Bend School Board voted to pass the preliminary budget for 2010-11 school year:
West Bend School Board members approved a $77,398,235 preliminary budget for the 2010-11 school year Monday night in a 6-1 vote.
Dave Weigand was opposed.
“Part of my concern (with the preliminary budget) is that it is based on the supposition that we [...]
West Bend Teacher Contracts Approved
The West Bend School Board unanimously approved the tentative contract agreement with the teachers for the next 2 years, avoiding the arbitration process. Concessions on the part of the teachers will mean that some of the proposed cuts will be postponed for at least one more year:
The West Bend School Board approved a tentative agreement between the West [...]
Marquardt and Weigand Win School Board Elections
Randy Marquardt and David Weigand were the top vote-getters in the West Bend School Board elections. See here for details:
West Bend School Board incumbents were defeated Tuesday when voters in the district went to the polls.
Complete but unofficial results from the West Bend School Board election put newcomers Randy Marquardt and Dave Weigand on the [...]
Daily News Coverage of School Board Candidate Forum
The Chamber of Commerce sponsored a forum for the 4 candidates for West Bend School Board. See full article here with additional coverage here. The forum will be shown on the local community cable channel (ch 99) on Thursday, April 1 at 7:00 and Sunday April 4 at 3:00 (the forum starts with the city [...]
Re-Post of West Bend School Board Questionairre
We are re-posting the previous post with the School Board candidate questionairre below, with only the 4 winners of the primary listed:
A questionnaire was sent to all West Bend School Board candidates and their answers are published below. Each response has been published in full, adhering to our word limits. The purpose of this questionnaire [...]
More Forums For West Bend School Board Candidates
There are more opportunities coming up to hear what the West Bend School Board candidates have to say:
WBKV radio (AM 1470) : Saturday, March 27 at 11 a.m. All 4 candidates will be in the studios. You will have the opportunity to call in with questions or comments. Or you may email in your questions [...]