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Madison365 Daily Update for March 21

Patrice Haste named new principal at Madison East High School

By Madison365 staff

March 21, 2025

The Madison School District has named Patrice Haste, an East High alum and the school’s current assistant principal, as the new, permanent principal of Madison East High School. Haste will succeed Mikki Smith, who will be retiring at the end of this school year. Haste’s career with MMSD began in 2011, encompassing positions as a […]

Months after tragedy, Madison’s Abundant Life Christian School turns the page — through basketball

By Nicholas Garton

March 21, 2025

Madison’s Abundant Life Christian School sits one win away from reaching the summit of what boys basketball coach Mike Thies described as the biggest mountain the team has ever had to climb.  Abundant Life faces Sheboygan Lutheran Friday morning at 10:45 am. in the semifinals of the WIAA state basketball tournament at the Kohl Center […]

Madison College to host birthing justice event April 16

By Madison365 staff

March 21, 2025

“Birthright: An Evening of Storytelling, Poetry and Community Connection” will take place on Wednesday, April 16, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Madison College, 1701 Wright St. “In Dane County, the data on Black maternity tells a troubling story — one of disparities, neglect, and systemic barriers. But Black mothers, doulas, and birth workers are more than statistics. […]

Military was instructed to search keywords including ‘first’ and ‘history’ during rushed purge of Pentagon websites

By CNN

March 21, 2025

By Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s February memo ordering all diversity, equity and inclusion-related content to be removed from Pentagon websites was so vague that military units were instructed to simply use keyword searches like “racism,” “ethnicity,” “history” and “first” when searching for articles and […]

Trump signs executive order to begin dismantling Education Department, raising questions for students and parents

By CNN

March 20, 2025

By Kevin Liptak and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to begin dismantling the US Department of Education, seeking to fulfill decades of conservative ambition to get rid of the agency, but raising new questions for the country’s millions of public schools, student-loan holders and parents. No […]