Where is UW support for charter school?

Chris Rickert:

Last week I wrote that it seemed hypocritical that average Madisonians and other liberals in city government and the left-leaning Madison press haven't been beating the drum for proposed charter school Madison Preparatory Academy.

The school's target clientele, after all, is one the left usually considers sympathetic: poor, disenfranchised minority youth historically denied access to educational opportunity.

But it took a reader to point out an even bigger elephant in this oddly somnolent room: UW-Madison.

It was only a few months ago that Madison's prime educational attraction and the jewel of the UW System mounted a vigorous and very public defense of attempts to create a more diverse student body through its affirmative action policies.

You'd think this powerful institution might also be showing a little love for a similar social justice cause in its own backyard.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 22, 2011 1:49 AM
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