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Board hears curriculum committee on German exchange, School Links rollout and mastery-transcript pilot with AI safeguards

Madison School District Board of Education · January 14, 2026
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Summary

The curriculum committee sought board approval for a student exchange to Freiberg, Germany (estimated $2,200 per student), described adoption of School Links to replace Naviance, and outlined a pilot of the Mastery Transcript Consortium with explicit data-security review and AI-literacy supports.

Curriculum updates at the Dec. 9 meeting covered an international-student exchange, a new student guidance platform and an early pilot of a competency-based transcript, with several board members raising student-data-security and AI concerns.

Speaker 5 summarized a German exchange presentation by Martin Glasser and Laura Scott. The trip is planned for roughly June 25—July 5/6, costs are estimated at about $2,200 per student and typical group size is 14—20. The committee sought board approval to proceed; both chaperone…

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