Wisconsin school district signs six-figure contract with DEI educational counselor
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.
As part of this partnership, Improve Your Tomorrow will provide students at Capital High School and La Follette High School in Madison with mentorship services, career advising, and college exposure activities “designed specifically to support the educational outcomes of young men of color.”
In messages to members of MMSD’s Board of Education, Improve Your Tomorrow recommended that school administrators approve more than $113,000 in estimated expenditures on the partnership project for the 2025-2027 school years.
According to the terms of the agreement memorandum, the school district will provide Improve Your Tomorrow with a list of students to reach out to and enroll as “brothers” in the program. A subsection titled “Target Student Population” stipulates that MMSD, however, must “approve all IYT brothers.”
Improve Your Tomorrow staff will accordingly have access to suspension data, attendance numbers, GPA, and course grades to monitor the academic improvement of program participants.