🤓 Are you smarter than a Madison third grader?

🏫 UW-Madison Provost Leaving To Head University of Illinois

• Charles Isbell Jr., who has been UW-Madison’s provost for the last two years, is leaving to become chancellor at the University of Illinois.
• Since he came to Madison in 2023, Isbell launched the Research, Innovation, and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) program, hired new deans and tackled funding challenges.
• Isbell came on the City Cast Madison podcast last year to talk about his hopes of putting UW on the forefront of the AI revolution. [Daily Cardinal, 🎧 City Cast Madison]

🧑‍⚕️ Nurses Go from Picket Line To Signing Dotted Lines

• Nurses at UnityPoint Health-Meriter were celebrating last week after they signed a historic contract with the hospital. But what were they fighting for, and in the end, what did they get?
• The contract included 8% raises for all nurses over the next two years, with an additional 2% in step increases. While it did not set staff-to-patient ratios as the union had hoped, nurses will have a voice in increased safety measures and security procedures going forward.
• 🎧 Dig deeper: On the City Cast Madison podcast today, executive producer Hayley Sperling talked to Pat Raes, the head of SEIU Wisconsin and a Meriter nurse herself, about the importance of these wins. [Cap Times, 🎧City Cast Madison]

🏗️ Ruling Could Delay Controversial Apartment Complex

• A Dane County judge ruled that the Madison City Council used “immaterial” criteria when voting to rezone two west side properties on Old Sauk Road to make way for a 144-unit apartment complex.
• Nearby residents have organized against the Stone House Development plan, saying it would increase traffic and density in a neighborhood full of single-family homes. Dane County Judge Rhonda Lanford ruled last week that council members failed to consider factors required by the city’s comprehensive plan.
• In order for the project to move forward, the council would again need to rezone the property in accordance with the plan. Lanford has scheduled a June 9 hearing on a temporary injunction to stop any permits being issued on the project. [Isthmus]

It’s Finals Week for many Madison students, but why should they have all the test-taking fun? The questions in this quiz were all taken from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s standardized math test for third-grade students. How well can you do? Good luck!

Kiana has three buckets. She has 33 apples to put in the buckets. She will put the same number of apples in each bucket. Which equation shows a way that Kiana can find how many apples to put into each bucket?

• 3 + X = 33
• 33 - X = 3
• 3 x X = 33
• 3 / X = 33