Paul Vallas Madison Talk Notes

Channel3000.com:

About 100 parents of Madison schoolchildren looked toward a longtime superintendent on Saturday for answers on how to fix the achievement gap plaguing the district.

Paul Vallas, the superintendent of the Bridgeport, Conn., school district, previously led New Orleans schools during the recovery after Hurricane Katrina. The Boys and Girls Club of Dane County brought him to La Follette High School to help answer questions about the shortcomings of Madison schools.

Parents asked questions on several topics, but mostly focused on the minority achievement gap.

"They want perfection, and the achievement gap is that one big hurdle that they're struggling to get over," Vallas said in an interview after the two-and-a-half hour town hall. "This is a community that cares and sometimes when people care strong enough and have different viewpoints they have a tendency to shout at each other."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 28, 2012 8:43 PM
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