It’s third period at Jefferson Middle School and language arts teacher Jay Brazeau asks his seventh-grade students to turn to Chapter 12 in Rosa Parks’ autobiography. In a nearby classroom, math teacher Kelly O’Malley is asking her students to quiet down.
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Half-walls separate classes at Jefferson Middle School. A proposed referendum would renovate Jefferson to include more permanent partitions between classrooms to reduce noise and distractions.
Lunches at Sandburg Elementary School occupy hall space prior to being delivered to classrooms at the school. The Madison School District is asking voters to approve a $41 million referendum that would, in part, expand crowded buildings like Sandburg.
Teachers at Jefferson Middle School spend off-classroom hours in a second-floor common space at the school. The area does not have any doors or walls.
Students receive extra help with English and Spanish instruction at Sandburg Elementary School in this March file photo.
Two classes share one room at Sandburg Elementary School to meet requirements under the state's program that sends money to low-income schools if they limit class sizes in order to raise achievement.
The office of the Sandburg Elementary School principal doubles as a heath screening room on March 24.
Students make their way through a loosely-controlled security area in the library of Jefferson Middle School in Madison on March 24.
A first grade teacher guides her students into a classroom on March 24 which formerly served as a storage closet at Sandburg Elementary School.
Ceiling panels in a science room at Jefferson Elementary School in Madison, Wis. show the effects of age.
Temporary walls separate classrooms and hallways at Jefferson Middle School.
Students gather in a make-shift classroom at Sandburg Elementary School in this March file photo. Sandburg will receive eight extra classrooms as a result of a $41 million referendum that Madison overwhelmingly passed on Tuesday.
Referendums to pay for operations, technology and building projects will be on the ballots next week in 57 school districts across Wisconsin.
The Madison School Board met behind closed doors last month to discuss one way to shore up a nearly $15 million budget gap, leading some open …
The number of Wisconsin school districts turning to voters to fund operating costs has climbed rapidly over the past five elections.
Residents are getting a first look at what they purchased, with projects underway at six schools.
