La Crosse teachers’ union president Martinez on $60 million referendum, school board, cellphones in class

La Crosse Education Association president Jesse Martinez joined. With the spring election cycle ending Tuesday, we spent quite a bit of time on the district’s six-year, $60-million operating budget referendum on the ballot and the school board race.

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We also talked about cellphones in classrooms and how the schools and teachers deal with those. And, in the midst of the school board conversation, as well as having a Wisconsin Supreme Court race on the ballot, we asked Martinez the process the teachers’ union goes through to make endorsements.