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Monday, November 21, 2011

Outside Agitators? | AMPS

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Outside Agitators?

The Animals – “We’ve Gotta To Get Out Of This Place” (click to listen or download).

The self-selected Board of the Madison Predatory Academy are an interesting bunch. As the Board of Education considers their request for a non-instrumentality school charter with “total authority to make decisions related to budget, personnel, curriculum, school policy and overall operations,” I hope we hear more from and about them and their plans After all, baring extreme circumstances (more on that below), if the charter is granted this will likely be the last time for five years that the Board and the residents of Madison they represent have any say about the school.

I have been doing a little digging and one thing that I find worth noting is that 6 of the 16 (of 17) Madison Prep Board Members I can locate information on, are not residents of MMSD (the one I could not locate information on