Stakes high for Nerad on achievement gap proposal, including his contract which currently expires June, 2013
Matthew DeFour:
lot is riding on Madison Superintendent Dan Nerad's upcoming plan for improving low-income, minority student achievement.
The plan is billed as a blueprint for addressing an intractable, divisive issue in Madison, and it could also factor into the upcoming School Board discussion of Nerad's future in Madison.
The United Way of Dane County has made closing the achievement gap one of its primary issues for more than 15 years through the Schools of Hope tutoring program. But president Leslie Howard said the recent debate over the proposed Madison Prepatory Academy charter school has drawn more public attention to the issue than ever before.
"I don't want to say something so grandiose that everything's at stake, but in some ways it feels like that," Howard said.
Much more on
the proposed Madison Preparatory IB charter school, here.
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Acting White
Event (2.16.2012) The Quest for Educational Opportunity: The History of Madison's Response to the Academic Achievement Gap (1960-2011)
Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 2, 2012 6:22 AM
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