Alicia Grant, center, multicultural services/student coordinator at West High School, talks to Madison School District Superintendent Carlton Jenkins, right, and Nelson Render, head of high schools, at the soul food luncheon hosted by the West’s Black Student Union in March.
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The Madison School District is losing a second top administrative official ahead of the 2022-23 school year.
Nelson Render, the district’s high school chief, announced that he plans to leave the Madison School District to lead the Bibb County School District in his home state of Georgia, according to a statement Monday from the gate. – district spokesperson, Tim LeMonds.
“Working at (Madison School District), alongside Superintendent Dr. Carlton Jenkins and serving the Madison school community has been one of the highlights of my career, which makes it an incredibly difficult decision,” Render said in a statement. “Ultimately, this was a family decision, and for family reasons, I am returning to the state of Georgia to be closer to them. I want to thank all of our students, staff, and district leaders who made my (Madison School District) experience something I will always cherish.
LeMonds said the district is very grateful for all that Render has accomplished.
“The past two years have been very difficult, and throughout the pandemic, his leadership has been instrumental in guiding the (Madison School District) high schools successfully through unprecedented times,” he said. -he declares.
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Render joined the district in July 2021.
His departure comes after district director of studies Marvin Pryor announced plans to return to Atlanta full-time to be with his wife and children in March.
A number of changes to school building management were also announced in April in an email from Jenkins to students, staff and families. Among the schools are East, West and Capital High Elementary Schools, Sennett Middle School and Gompers and Henderson. The changes came after Pryor left in March.
The Art of the Everyday: A May Recap in Photos from Wisconsin State Journal Photographers
Kayla Soren and Diego Frankel enjoy a breath of spring during a visit under a magnolia tree at the UW Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin on Monday, May 9, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Umalkher Samatar, center, plays with his daughters Siham Ali, left, and Zubeida Ali at a party Saturday celebrating Eid al-Fitr at McGaw Park in Fitchburg. The Eid holiday marks the end of Ramadan. KAYLA WOLF, STATE NEWSPAPER
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Lottie Stenjem curates an assortment of flowers to put in vases that will be shipped to retailers, at ERI Floral in Stoughton, Wis., Monday, May 2, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Wisconsin Department of Administration facilities worker Chris Wallom harvests tulips on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Capitol as workers prepare beds for rows of incoming annuals in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday May 16, 2022. Each spring, after the short-lived growing season for the flowers, workers dig up the bulbs and make them available to residents on a first-come, first-served basis who wish to improve their own properties for the next year. JOHN HART, STATE NEWSPAPER
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Uri Andrews, from Middleton, holds one of his 4-year-old twins, Benjamin, with Rafael, 2, below to catch a whiff of the corpse flower, Amorphophallus titanum, which bloomed after reaching a height of ‘just under 68- inches, at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens’ Bolz Conservatory in Madison, Wisconsin on Thursday, May 5, 2022. The plant, which was a gift from UW-Madison’s DC Smith Greenhouse in 2006, bloomed for the last seen in 2010 at a height of 6 feet. Corpse flowers bloom an average of four to five times over their 40-year lifespan. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE NEWSPAPER
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Eva Theyerl, granddaughter of library aide Roberta Ryskoski, takes a nap at the Brandon Public Library in Brandon, Wisconsin on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
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Genevieve Bouska, left, and Lulu Jaeckel, both West High School seniors, relax in hammocks during an afternoon visit to Vilas Park in Madison, Wisconsin, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Returning to the area on a seasonal migration, several great egrets share the shoreline of Wingra Creek as a light downpour falls in Madison, Wisconsin, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Aws Albarghouti, awaiting the birth of their second child in July, captures photographs of his wife, Maria Zarzalejo, during an afternoon visit to Vilas Park in Madison, Wisconsin, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Brynn Wozniak and Ethan Cash, right, both UW-Madison students, sit in the grass at Lisa Link Peace Park as they listen to the band LINE during Madison Night Market in Madison, Wisconsin, on Thursday May 12, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Continuing an annual tradition, UW-Madison graduates pose for photos with the statue of Abraham Lincoln on Bascom Hill as they celebrate their graduation on campus in Madison, Wisconsin, Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Enjoying an up close look at the sculpture is School of Business graduate Danielle Lacke. JOHN HART, STATE NEWSPAPER
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UW-Madison graduate students, from left, Michael Walsh, Michael Burns, Jeremiah Clark and Noah Prudlo play a game of beer dice outside their fraternity, Pi Lambda Phi, before attending the Spring Opening Ceremony at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday, May 14, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Ke Thao and his 11-month-old son Leo share a fishing trip together from a Vilas Park pier in Madison, Wisconsin on Monday, May 23, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Students participate in an infantry drill demonstration during Civil War Living History Days at the Milton House Museum in Milton, Wis., Friday, May 20, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
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The worker from the village of Lone Rock, Wis. Haydn Walsh holds banners commemorating the military careers of area family members as the village continues an annual tradition of honoring them with displays throughout the village from Memorial Day through July 4th Thursday, May 26, 2022 JOHN HART, JOURNAL D ‘STATE
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The sisters, from left, Lydia Scovill and Charlette place flags at the grave of their great-grandfather, who served as a Marine in World War II, at the Roselawn Memorial Cemetery in Monona, Wisconsin, on Monday, May 30 2022. KAYLA WOLF, DIARY STATE
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Visitors use a telescope, which was installed in 1879, to view the star Arcturus during one of the free public viewing days at the University of Wisconsin’s Washburn Observatory in Madison, Wisconsin on Wednesday 18 May 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Cyclists head into a 3/4 mile long tunnel along the Elroy-Sparta State Trail near the village of Norwalk, Wis. Wednesday May 11, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Madison East’s Jonathon Quattrucci competes in the boys’ discus throw during a WIAA Division 1 Regional Track Meet at DeForest High School in DeForest, Wisconsin on Monday, May 23, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Runners compete in the 100-meter prelims during the Capital Conference Championships at Lodi High School in Lodi, Wis., on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
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Middleton’s Finn Patenaude celebrates winning the 110-meter hurdles during the Big 8 Conference meeting at Monterey Stadium in Janesville, Wisconsin on Friday, May 13, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
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Sun Prairie’s Miles Adkins celebrates crossing the bar in the pole vault during the WIAA Division 1 section in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on Thursday, May 26, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
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Wisconsin Heights Barneveld’s Lexi Pulcine, right, wins the 100-meter hurdles as Belleville’s Alexandra Atwell crosses the finish line during the Capital Conference Championships at Lodi High School in Lodi, Wisconsin on Tuesday, May 17 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
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Wisconsin wide receiver Christaana Angelopulos scores Michigan’s Lexie Blair at the Goodman Softball Complex in Madison, Wisconsin on Friday, May 6, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
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Madison East High School students, including senior Harnish VanOers, center, rookie Carina Caspar, right, and sophomore Oscar Mora, left, walk down East Washington Avenue to the school’s State Capitol in support of immigrant driver’s license rights in Madison, Wis., Monday, May 2, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE NEWSPAPER
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Protesters demonstrate outside the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, May 3, 2022. A leaked draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court intends to overturn the 1973 case Roe versus Wade who legalized abortion nationwide. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE NEWSPAPER
Volunteers, left to right, Mark Thomas, Alysha Clark, Joy Morgen, Anne Habel and Jered Hoff place headstones along Atwood Avenue in Olbrich Park, signifying US military lives lost since 2001, in the part of the Veterans for Peace Memorial Mile exhibit, in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday, May 28, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
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Alex Rose, left, and Jasmine Devant of Jefferson, Wisconsin, watch the sunset from atop a historic Native American dirt platform mound at Aztalan State Park in Aztalan, Wisconsin, Monday, 16 May 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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