Wisconsin school district signs six-figure contract with DEI educational counselor
The Madison Metropolitan School District in Wisconsin has signed a three-year contract with the nonprofit Improve Your Tomorrow to provide specialized educational opportunities for minority male students. The program aims to support these students through mentorship, career advising, and college exposure activities. Concerns have been raised regarding the program's racial criteria for participation, with calls for a more inclusive approach to academic support.
- ▪Madison Metropolitan School District has partnered with Improve Your Tomorrow to implement DEI programming.
- ▪The contract is worth over $113,000 for the 2025-2027 school years.
- ▪Improve Your Tomorrow will provide mentorship and career advising to students at Capital High School and La Follette High School.
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EXCLUSIVE — A major public school district in Wisconsin has partnered with a nonprofit organization to implement diversity, equity, and inclusion programming that would give minority male high school students specialized educational opportunities. Madison Metropolitan School District, the state’s second-largest school system, signed a three-year contract with Improve Your Tomorrow, a California-based DEI academic counseling group “committed to closing the college achievement gap for young men of color,” according to documents obtained by Defending Education and shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner.
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