Education
La Crosse teachers’ union president Martinez on building consolidation, school board elections, A.I.
La Crosse teachers’ union president, Jesse Martinez, joined La Crosse Talk PM last week to discuss the district’s building consolidation plan, A.I. use and abuse in schools and the upcoming school board elections.
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Martinez is in his second year as La Crosse Education Association (the teachers’ union) president. He’s also a seventh grade science and math teacher at Logan Middle School. This is his ninth year teaching.
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Walden
December 28, 2023 at 2:40 pm
Martinez is naive. So is the School Board. Apparently both are being told no material number of jobs will be lost. However, the savings from school consolidation is reduced District headcount. If there is no reduction of headcount there is little to no reason to eliminate the schools their teachers and parents want so desperately to keep open. Its nuts.