Madison Superintendent Nerad faces student critiques at Centro Hispano

Mario Koran:

At the March 17 meeting on the school district's plan to eliminate the achievement gap, Superintendent Dan Nerad opened the discussion on a familiar note, laying out the statistics that underline Madison's achievement gap problem and outlining strategies to bridge the gap.

Describing the situation as "a tale of two school districts," Nerad said that recent data shows MMSD graduates 87 percent of its white students in four years, compared to 56 percent of its black students and 48 percent of its Hispanic students. An interpreter conveyed his message to the largely Spanish-speaking audience.

But unlike the nine public meetings before, Nerad was confronted by a different set of stakeholders--students. While attendees at earlier discussions have largely been parents and other adults, at Centro Hispano, students took the floor.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 24, 2012 1:09 AM
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