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100 Black Men Create Program to Tackle Chronic Absenteeism

March 11, 2016

Project SOAR Will Mentor 300 Students in the Madison Metropolitan School District The 100 Black Men of Madison announced its new initiative, Project SOAR, which stands for Student Opportunities, Access and Readiness. Project SOAR is a comprehensive program to lower truancy rates and raise high school graduation rates. The program involves one-on-one mentoring, career exploration […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Madison Metropolitan School District, Project SOAR, The 100 Black Men of Madison, Truancy

MMSD First Quarterly Review Spotlights Progress for African American Students

December 18, 2015

The Madison Metropolitan School District is providing targeted support to improve early literacy, strengthening its family engagement efforts, taking race and bias head on and more in the first quarter of the school year, according to the district’s first Quarterly Review of Progress for the 2015-16 school year. The review provides an update on the […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Jennifer Cheatham, Madison Metropolitan School District

Madison Schools Piloting New Foreign Language Immersion Program

October 30, 2015

10 Kindergarten Classes Will Spend Half The Day Teaching In Spanish by Parth Shah The Madison Metropolitan School District will explore a new way to teach foreign language. One in every four Madison public school students is a non-native English speaker with more than half of those students speak Spanish at home. Now, 10 Madison […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Language Immersion, Madison Metropolitan School District, Parth Shah

Fully Engaged: Nichelle Nichols Joins the Madison Metropolitan School District Staff

August 7, 2015

by Rob Franklin As the summer is winds down, the time begins when parents start preparing their children for the upcoming school year. For Nichelle Nichols, this is now the time to help parents and schools to prepare their children. Nichols was recently named Director of Family, Youth and Community Engagement for the Madison Metropolitan […]

Popular Interests In This Article: August 7 2015, Community Engagement, Madison Metropolitan School District, Nichelle Nichols, Parent Academy, Rob Franklin, Vol. 25 No. 30



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