If you haven’t seen this, you really should: History, Not “Conspiracy”: Kaleem Caire’s Connections Allen Ruff covers all the conservative help that Kaleem Caire has gotten over the Madison Prep idea:

The recent controversy over the Urban League of Greater Madison’s proposal for a Madison Preparatory Academy has been framed primarily as a local story pitting contending interests within the city. The charter school’s promoters, supporters and mainstream media have portrayed the ULGM’s CEO and President, Kaleem Caire as the Prep’s public champion and native son returned home on a mission to help “close the achievement gap,” the racial disparities in Madison’s schools.

But Caire’s well-established national ties, spanning more than a decade, to numbers of conservative foundations, think tanks and individuals bent on privatizing public school coffers, creating for-profit schools, and destroying teachers’ unions, certainly suggest that there is more to the story.

Certainly, worth a read. Good job Mr. Ruff for doing the research.