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The REAL story behind the Madison Prep Academy Proposal? Helping "At Risk" Kids is a Cover for Union-Busting |

The REAL story behind the Madison Prep Academy Proposal? Helping "At Risk" Kids is a Cover for Union-Busting |:

The REAL story behind the Madison Prep Academy Proposal? Helping “At Risk” Kids is a Cover for Union-Busting

Madison’s proposed Preparatory Academy is making some new changes to their plans for the all-girls and all-boys charter schools Now it comes out that the prep school backers want to use non-union teachers & staff. In journalism school, this is called “burying the lede.” The real story here is union busting as an excuse for helping “at risk” kids. The same thing happened in Milwaukee. About 10-15 years ago, the so-called “school choice” voucher proponents teamed up with Dr. Howard Fuller to do the same thing to Milwaukee Public Schools. Voucher Schools were sold as superior to regular schools. After all of these years with the most extensive