(This story first appeared in the Sunday edition of the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper.)
“Come on Madison, we can do better than this!” That?s Kaleem Caire. He said it not recently, but in 1998 in an op-ed questioning why his hometown wasn?t paying more attention to the poor educational outcomes and high incarceration rates of black males. “I?m asking Madison to be your best self and get this done!”
That’s also Caire, in an interview this week about his proposal for a publicly funded charter school designed to improve educational outcomes of low-income minority students.