Support Eau Claire Public Schools

10/21/2026

When school funding referendums fail, public schools are often left with impossible choices to keep the lights on and help their students succeed.

The Baraboo, Portage, Sauk Prairie and Wisconsin Dells school districts all had failed referendums this spring. Now, some districts are trying again, and others are making tough cuts to keep their schools afloat. Learn more: https://madison.com/news/local/education/local_schools/article_8dc95fa9-1cf1-5a85-b07b-1ddf36a9fc64.html

10/21/2026

Listen now!!

10/20/2026

Help your public schools!

HELP US GET THIS MESSAGE OUT STATEWIDE! Can you chip in $50? $25? $10? $100? Let's pool our passion and make it happen!

We need YOUR help in the final stretch before the election. Please chip in now using the link below, and let us know where you’d like to see us boost this message!

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10/15/2026

School funding has been framed as a choice between property taxpayers and students. Wisconsin can do better.

09/13/2026

The Trump administration decision to move federal special education oversight to the Department of Health and Human Services has prompted a mixed response.

08/29/2026

62 years old??? Do we have something for you.

As our fall sports and activities begin, a quick reminder to our community about our Platinum Activity Pass. These FREE lifetime passes to ECASD-sponsored regular season sports and performing arts activities are available to residents of the ECASD 62 and older, adults with disabilities and veterans of the Armed Forces for free admission to school events. They can be picked up at Memorial High, North High and our Administration Building on Main St.

08/28/2026

Please support the "Stand in your Light Memory Choir" fund raiser!!

08/27/2026

Know this…

"Flexibility" sounds harmless until you ask who it's flexible for.

This week's New Yorker piece on the Head Start deregulation proposal looks at what happens when required class sizes and staff-to-child ratios disappear, not just on paper, but in classrooms where close to half the kids may have a diagnosed disability or a home life in crisis.

Wisconsin Head Start leaders are blunt in the piece about what "flexibility" actually means for the people doing the work.

Full story available to subscribers of The New Yorker here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/progress-report/can-head-start-be-deregulated-out-of-existence

08/27/2026