The Sunday WSJ lead editorial advocates for cooperative ventures and mergers among Wisconsin local governmental units to improve services and decrease costs. I'm wouldn't advocate for merging thg MG school district, but I do think we should seriously investigate cooperative arrangements for some services. Neighboring districts are all in a same financial boat, and cooperative arrangements might make it possible to do a better job delivering services, lowering costs or both.
Enter the Local Government Institute with a February report detailing the processes of local government cooperation and a discussion of several case studies.
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About Me
- Peter Sobol
- My family moved to Monona in 2003 and have been happily ensconsed in the Frost Woods Neighborhood ever since. I have 2 kids who graduated from Mg. I have been serving on the school board since April of 2007. We moved back to the Midwest in 2002 after spending 10 years in California, where I was a Department Director for Maxtor, a Fortune 500 company. In truth we left California largely because of the school situation - chronically underfunded schools did not offer the kind of programs or opportunities we wanted for our children. We picked Monona because our thorough research showed that this was a place we would really like to educate our kids. Our experience has taught us to value the quality schools we have here in Monona, and the importance of careful stewardship to maintain community support for those schools.
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What we SHOULD do is create a consolidated Dane County SD! Other states have county school districts. Wisconsin is moving (ever so slowly) to eliminate the redundant layers of local town, village and city government. This model is more efficient (something to consider in difficult budgetary times) and reduces geographical boundary disputes. But because it makes sense, it will never happen.
The McFarland SD, Deerfield SD and CG portion of mGSD should consolidate. Let monona have what they want - their own little SD.
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