Emily Berry
What happens when you assume?
Whether you support a potential $65 million bond issue to pay for facilities improvements in our school district or not, I hope you will...
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Emily Berry
- Nov 14, 2018
- 3 min
"Please don't say 'this is a journey'"
Three of our five school board members are professors, so if there is one way to reach them, it is with an academic study of something....
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Emily Berry
- Nov 13, 2018
- 6 min
School leaders hear what they want to hear: a "yes."
Tonight's school board meeting will include a review of survey responses from the community gauging our tolerance for borrowing and...
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Emily Berry
- Oct 19, 2018
- 5 min
Unequal access to power
There's a phrase that people use now, sometimes jokingly: "all the feels," that describes Shorewood right now. All of us watching or...
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Emily Berry
- Oct 15, 2018
- 4 min
Waiting for leadership
The last few days of "To Kill a Mockingbird" controversy in Shorewood have swirled to the surface a lot of resentments, assumptions,...
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Emily Berry
- Oct 12, 2018
- 3 min
We failed. Let's get out of the way.
I'm lucky, I guess, to have a blank page here to draft my thoughts about the district cancelling its production of "To Kill a...
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Emily Berry
- Sep 12, 2018
- 4 min
How do we define good character and citizenship? Should schools even try?
I mentioned in my preview of this week's school board meeting that our board was taking up some of the most substantive questions and...
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Emily Berry
- Sep 10, 2018
- 5 min
Take your pick of topics
Every parent I know has a certain thing about their kid's school that they are passionate about. One dad may not think school lunches are...
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Emily Berry
- Sep 5, 2018
- 3 min
Facilities plans are crystallizing - are you paying attention?
There were a good two dozen people in attendance at Tuesday's annual meeting, present to listen to the highlights of the school...
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Emily Berry
- Aug 30, 2018
- 3 min
Cheers to showing up
There were a good two dozen people in attendance at Tuesday's annual meeting, present to listen to the highlights of the school...
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Emily Berry
- Aug 24, 2018
- 1 min
Your meeting
Once a year, the school district is required to call a meeting for village residents to consider and (usually) approve a tax levy to...
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Emily Berry
- Jul 11, 2018
- 8 min
Walls have a way of getting political.
UPDATE/POSTSCRIPT: The special Friday the 13th meeting resulted in a reversal - the wall has indeed been knocked down. Lots of wasted...
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Emily Berry
- Jun 27, 2018
- 2 min
Spending plans for 2018-2019
Tuesday's regular meeting was much shorter than usual and was missing two board members, but the remaining three voted on significant...
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Emily Berry
- Jun 26, 2018
- 3 min
No summer break - school district work is in full swing
This week's school board meeting should be a revealing and busy one, as the board takes up topics that should be of keen interest to...
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Emily Berry
- Jun 12, 2018
- 6 min
Laying the groundwork for a big pile of debt
I'll start this post with a positive: a room full of people showed up last week to hear about the district's facilities plan and the role...
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Emily Berry
- May 23, 2018
- 9 min
If a meeting happens and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
If you knew that the school district had a dozen work groups meeting regularly to discuss specific issues and advise school district...
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Emily Berry
- May 10, 2018
- 4 min
A Small Town Hall
The school board hosted their final linkage of the year Tuesday night, welcoming anyone and everyone for a Town Hall immediately before...
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Emily Berry
- May 7, 2018
- 9 min
Full email thread: our Superintendent on Student Transfers
Readers, our district superintendent Bryan Davis emailed me earlier today taking issue with the way I framed my recent post on transfers...
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Emily Berry
- May 3, 2018
- 5 min
Are students of color and their families giving up on Shorewood School District?
A few months ago, I started hearing talk of several African-American students leaving our high school and transferring to other nearby...
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Emily Berry
- Mar 13, 2018
- 5 min
Maintenance and Operations: How Shorewood Measures Up
[Important edits made to this post Tuesday, March 13 regarding the data cited here] Spend a lot of time in any of our schools, and...
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