Madison Metropolitan School District Policies
- Places a large focus on race. One of their core values is race specific and is called “Black Excellence.” Regarding the program they claim, “The programming varies from year to year but includes intersectional identities and communities so every “student, staff, and family thrives” (Goal 2) and our “African African children and youth excel in school” (Goal 3)
- In 2025, a Madison district teacher, Kally Bishop, filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after she was transferred for what her attorney claimed was “race-based reasoning.” Regarding the teacher evaluation system, Bishop’s attorney said, “Seniority was replaced by a weighted “rubric” of four scores, but the highest, by far, is so-called “culturally responsive practices.” This criterion is heavily race-based, openly encouraging teachers to prioritize “students of color” over other students to receive the highest score. When this new system was adopted, the superintendent and the school board told the public that it was intended and designed to protect “teachers of color.”