Yet some of those strategies have been used by the school district for years, and the results have not been good, Hughes acknowledged. “The results have been disappointing not just because African-American kids are achieving at lower rates than white kids, but because our African-American kids are doing worse than African-American kids in Beloit, than African-American kids in Racine. We ought to be able to do better than that.”
Madison has long spent more per student than most Wisconsin school districts. Unfortunately, the District’s disastrous reading results continue.
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Related: The rejected Madison Preparatory Academy IB charter school.