UW System has a new state ‘charter czar’ — the 3rd in past year
Seligman succeeds Latoya Holiday, who took over as director sometime this winter and then left to join the state Department of Public Instruction.
His salary is $103,000, Pitsch said. Twenty-two people applied for the position.
Seligman previously worked as assistant director of the UW Hillel Foundation at UW-Madison. He also practiced commercial and political law at Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. and taught high school Spanish in Washington, D.C.
He is from Madison and graduated from Madison School District. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, a Master’s in teaching from American University and a law degree from the UW-Madison.
He starts Aug. 1.
A majority of the taxpayer supported Madison school board rejected the proposed Madison Preparatory IB charter school. more.
