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School district, UW programs target inequity across Madison By Luisa de Vogel SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Madison Metropolitan School District and UW-Madison work together to facilitate enrichment programs for high school students in order to bridge achievement gaps among student demographics.

Stuck in traffic in New York City, Gloria Ladson-Billings watched as the national debt rose on a nearby electronic billboard. As she watched the numbers grow, so did a smaller number underneath — designating each American’s share of the debt. Looking at them, she felt a sense of responsibility for it. A sense of responsibility she wished everyone felt for the deficits and gaps in educational opportunity among historically marginalized students. “We all seem to feel accountable,” said Ladson-Billings, the Kellner

Family Chair in Urban Education in the UW-Madison School of Education. “I want that same level of accountability to go into the achievement of all of our students, so instead of talking about an achievement gap, I want to talk about an educational debt.” Ladson-Billings said the “achievement gap” exists because students of color have historically been given fewer educational resources — and some students are left behind with an “educational debt,” compared to advantaged peers. She said we can’t

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Personal bias dispute shakes finance committee By Max Bayer and Maggie Chandler THE DAILY CARDINAL

Two finance committee representatives accused each other of bringing personal politics into a decision on funding for the Muslim Student Association this week. Since a dispute last week between Reps. Jordan Madden and Max Goldfarb, where each accused the other of bringing personal politics into a decision on funding for MSA, the two have resolved their differences through what Goldfarb called a “productive discussion.” Goldfarb told The Daily Cardinal he is not pursuing a Student

Judiciary case against Madden after he called for Madden’s resignation earlier in the week. On Monday night, Madden and Goldfarb engaged in a heated debate when Goldfarb proposed eliminating MSA’s budget, on the grounds that the group was no longer upholding the eligibility requirements for student fee funding. But Madden was skeptical of Goldfarb’s stance. “I do start to question what the viewpoint neutrality is of this committee when we have someone here with a Trump sticker on their laptop and then people here who have been funded by a conservative student PAC to get on this committee,” Madden said

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Two Student Services Finance Committee reps resolved their accusations over viewpoint nuetrality after a heated debate.

at the meeting. He was referring to fellow committee members Goldfarb and Rep. Dylan Resch. While running for SSFC last spring, both representatives received funding from the PAC Turning Point USA, a national conservative organization with chapters on campuses across the country. “I vehemently reject these [viewpoint neutrality] allegations,” Goldfarb said in a public statement on his Facebook page. “All of my previous statements and motions are available via open records request for anyone that may doubt this assertion. What is more disturbing is the fact that the student that leveled these charges against me was himself in violation of viewpoint neutrality.” In a statement released Wednesday, SSFC Chair Jordan Gaal said comments from Monday’s meeting potentially violated viewpoint neutrality and asserted that ASM’s Student Election Commission doesn’t restrict candidates from accepting PAC funds. In response to Madden’s support of MSA, Goldfarb argued that granting a budget to someone to avoid appearing racist is biased. Goldfarb’s arguments for denying MSA funding were as follows: MSA did not originally include their mentorship program in their

budget presentation, which led Goldfarb to believe that the group did not have a program available to students on request He believed the group emphasized their supportive programming over their core programming, which would violate SSFC’s eligibility rules “Rep. Madden is on the record stating that SSFC did not have the authority to zero fund MSA because it would be perceived as racist,” Goldfarb said in his post. “I harbor no such bias and my motion to zero fund the Muslim Student Association was entirely based on funding criteria in the ASM bylaws. There is overwhelming evidence that this student organization is not eligible for funding.” Goldfarb also called for Madden’s resignation, but Madden stood by his vote. “As Goldfarb said in the very last line of his [post], the way you leave a lasting impact is by never giving up and standing up for what you believe in,” Madden said. “So in Max Goldfarb’s words, I think I stood up for what I believed in and I didn’t back down and I’m proud of that.” Since the dispute, Goldfarb said that they needed to set aside their differences so that the body could continue to make decisions.

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Students held a call-in to encourage the GOP oppose a bill to end an agreement with Planned Parenthood.

Students raise concern over abortion bill By Andy Goldstein SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Student activists organized Friday in opposition to a controversial Republican bill that would prohibit UW medical students from performing abortions or receive training at medical centers that do so. The proposal would end a decadelong partnership between the university and Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion-related training

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