Madison Preparatory Academy - School Information System

Governance
The Urban League of Greater Madison will serve as the charter developer seeking authorization from the Madison
Metropolitan School District’s (MMSD) Board of Education to establish Madison Prep. ULGM is using federal
charter school planning funds granted by the Department of Public Instruction to establish an independent 501(c)
(3) organization for Madison Preparatory Academy, Inc., under which Madison Prep’s schools will operate. As of
October 1, 2010, Madison Prep’s articles of incorporation have been filed with the State of Wisconsin and its
bylaws and 501(c)(3) application are being prepared.
Madison Prep has proposed to operate as an instrumentality charter school of the Madison Metropolitan School
District provided the Board of Education agrees to provide the school’s Board of Directors with autonomy of
governance, management and budgetary control of the school. Provided this agreement cannot be reached, the
Urban League of Greater Madison and the Board of Directors of Madison Prep will request that the MMSD Board
of Education authorize the school as a non-instrumentality charter school. As a non-instrumentality charter
school, the MMSD Board of Education may not employ any of the staff of Madison Prep, as stated in Wis. Stat. §
118.41 (7).
Regardless of its structural designation – instrumentality or non-instrumentality – Madison Prep will strive to
serve as a model of rigorous secondary education from which local K-12 education practitioners and researchers
can learn and replicate successful strategies into the traditional public schools.
The Board of Directors of Madison Prep was officially inaugurated on September 6, 2011. The board has 19
members. All current Board officer positions are interim through February 2012.
A. Officers
• Interim Chair: David Cagigal, Vice Chair of the Board, Urban League of Greater Madison
• Interim Vice Chair: Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, Interim Chair of Urban Education and Professor of
Curriculum & Instruction and Education Policy Studies, UW-Madison
• Interim Secretary: Elizabeth Donley, CEO, Stemina Corporation
• Interim Treasurer: Donna Hurd, Executive Director, Boardman Law Firm
B. Members
• Tyler Beck, Madison College Student and graduate of Urban Prep Academy in Chicago, IL
• Dave Boyer, CEO, MCD Inc.
• Kaleem Caire, President, Urban League of Greater Madison
• Rosa Frazier, Clinical Professor/Immigration Law, UW-Madison Law School
• Dennis Haefer, Vice President of Commercial Banking, Johnson Bank
• Torrey Jaeckle, Vice President, Jaeckle Distributors
• Rev. Richard Jones, Pastor, Mount Zion Baptist Church
• Maddy Niebauer, Managing Director of Strategy & Human Assets, Teach for America
• J. Marshall Osborn, retired math professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Fran Petonic, President, Meriter Foundation
• John Roach, Owner & CEO, John Roach Projects, Inc.
• Judd Schemmel, President, Edgewood High School
• Mario Garcia Sierra, Director of Programs, Centro Hispano
• Derrick Smith, Area Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific Corp.
• Terrence Wall, Chairman & CEO, T. Wall Properties
Madison Prep’s Board of Directors will serve several functions, including determining Madison Prep’s mission
and purpose; selecting the school administrators; supporting the schools’ administrators and reviewing their
performance; ensuring effective organizational planning; ensuring adequate resources and that resources are
managed effectively; recruiting and establishing partnerships for the schools; monitor the schools’ programs and
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