Ava Menkes
Managing Editor at The Daily Cardinal
| Managing Editor @dailycardinal, [email protected] | past @WisconsinWatch | fellow @UWJournEthics |
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2 weeks ago |
dailycardinal.com | Francesca Pica |Oliver Gerharz |Ted Hyngstrom |Ava Menkes
Your browser does not support the audio element. Cardinal Call: Uncertain Horizons for Immigration in Wisconsin On this episode of Cardinal Call, hosts Oliver Gerharz and Ted Hyngstrom talk to the Daily Cardinal’s Editor-in-Chief Frankie Pica and Managing Editor Ava Menkes about the Cardinal’s Spring 2025 Action Project, Uncertain Horizons: Immigration in Wisconsin. They discuss the stories in the issue including a photo essay on immigrant students, a local choir, and the Fulbright program.
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3 weeks ago |
isthmus.com | Ava Menkes
The high-stakes race for Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, which drew intense scrutiny and national attention, overshadowed the statewide race for head of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Election Night felt no different. While hundreds gathered across Madison’s Capitol Square at a party for Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford, a much smaller group waited at the Concourse Hotel to see if superintendent Jill Underly would defeat challenger Brittany Kinser.
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3 weeks ago |
isthmus.com | Ava Menkes
Education consultant Brittany Kinser is challenging incumbent Jill Underly for superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction in the April 1 general election. Kinser has been a special education teacher in Chicago public schools — though she has never had a Wisconsin teaching license — a Milwaukee school principal, and executive director of a national public charter school network.
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4 weeks ago |
isthmus.com | Ava Menkes
Education consultant Brittany Kinser is challenging incumbent Jill Underly for Wisconsin’s superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction in the April 1 general election. Underly — whose department recently lowered the threshold for what is proficient on state tests and changed the student success benchmark — has strongly advocated for increasing public school investments.
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1 month ago |
linkedin.com | Ava Menkes
Ava Menkes Managing Editor at The Daily Cardinal. Political science, journalism and history student at University of Wisconsin-Madison. 23m Report this post What a whirlwind it has been at The Daily Cardinal since last Spring! Our staff has tackled everything from a 12-day encampment to on-ground coverage of the RNC, DNC and presidential election.
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