Commentary on Redistributed Taxpayer Funds and the Madison School District (no mention of total spending or effectiveness)
Former Madison School Board Member Ed Hughes:
It turns out that this isn’t true. Explaining why gets a bit complicated, but here goes.
Mr. Hughes voted against the proposed Madison Preparatory IB Charter School.
Madison has long tolerated disastrous reading results, despite spending far more than most taxpayer supported K-12 school districts.
Madison Wisconsin High School Graduation Rates, College Readiness, and Student Learning.
Mr. Hughes curiously intervened in the recent Arbor Community School proposal.
”an emphasis on adult employment”.
This points up one of the frustrating aspects of trying to follow school issues in Madison: the recurring feeling that a quoted speaker – and it can be someone from the administration, or MTI, or the occasional school board member – believes that the audience for an assertion is composed entirely of idiots.
