Recent stories by Wisconsin State Journal reporter Chris Rickert
Chris Rickert covers education and the state and federal court systems.
The classrooms for 3- and 4-year-olds are located in Dodgeville, Lancaster, Platteville, Boscobel, Muscoda and Richland Center, and are run by Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program.
Federal Impact Aid is allotted to school districts that include large amounts of tax-exempt, federally owned land and that educate large numbers of “federally connected” children.
Jordan and Justin Sharlow have both been arrested in connection with three homicides from 2016 and 2017.
Dane County Assistant District Attorney Kasey Deiss said the three homicides were retaliation for the April 19, 2016, fatal shooting of Martez Moore, 30, in a Madison pub.
The results for the Madison School District were slightly worse than for students in those grades statewide. About 37% of them scored in the bottom quartile.
Deputies responded just before 9 p.m. to North Serns Road near Lukas Lane in the town of Milton and found a Chevy Silverado that had crashed into a tree.
An independent investigation found that administrators didn’t do enough when students reported that the former dean of students was having inappropriate relations with female students.
Prosecutors will charge a former Sun Prairie West High School principal with two counts of failing to report child abuse, the city’s police chief said Friday.
Domon T. Goodwan, 22, of Madison, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the murder of Kyesha Miller in a parking lot at the Harmony at Grandview Commons.
Rodney Esser is “the heart and soul” of Park Elementary School in Cross Plains, Principal Brett Humphrey said.
Gilkey-Meisegeier also has a case pending in state court, where he faces two counts of sexual exploitation of a child and 13 counts of possession of child pornography.
Paul Van Duyne and Andrea Whitaker, both of Madison, are charged with multiple felonies in what law enforcement has described as an elaborate conspiracy to poison two women.
District HR Director Chris Sadler wrote she had “engaged in misconduct within the performance of your position for the District in relation to inappropriate actions and discussions with students.”
Ridglan, which breeds beagles for biomedical research, has consistently denied that it mistreats the animals, but has agreed to give up its state breeding license.
Paul Van Duyne and Andrea Whitaker, both of Madison, are charged with multiple felonies in what law enforcement has described as an elaborate conspiracy to poison two women.
