Friday, September 14, 2012

The table is (almost) set: MMSD handbook process (and a few other things) | AMPS

The table is (almost) set: MMSD handbook process (and a few other things) | AMPS:


The table is (almost) set: MMSD handbook process (and a few other things)

by Thomas J. Mertz
Thomas Nast, “Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner,” Harper’s Weekly,
November 20, 1869.
It has been a busy week, so this is a late and short update on the Madison Metropolitan School District Employee Handbook process.  The news is good.
One of the things keeping me busy has been joining others in support of the fundamental rights to free speech and assembly against the unprecedented attacks directed  by new Capitol Police Chief Daniel Erwin.  You can read all about that via the excellent coverage by the Wisconsin Citizen’s Media Cooperative; ; you can show your support by joining the Solidarity Sing Along, every day at Noon at the Capitol.  Please do.
Last I wrote about the Handbook process, the MMSD default position was that the drafting would be done by a work group composed exclusively of administrators, with input from other staff being limited.  At a special 
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