At a quiet Madison School Board meeting in November, a pair of consultants from the Florida-based firm MGT set the tone for the board’s first public discussion about redrawing the maps that determine which schools students attend.
Citing past experience and survey responses from residents, the consultants recommended several principles to help guide the Madison Metropolitan School District’s major decisions about its boundary and attendance areas.
They cautioned the School Board against ranking any one principle above another and acknowledged that if some seemed contradictory, that was by design…