STEM academy to bring high school juniors to MATC campus full time

Next fall, about 25 East and LaFollette high school juniors won’t be spending much time walking the schools’ locker-lined halls. They will be attending Madison Area Technical College full time earning high school and college credit at no cost as part of a new early college STEM academy.

The program is a pilot for a new partnership between the Madison School District and MATC, also known as Madison College. Details of the program were presented Wednesday by coordinators at a joint meeting of the Madison School Board and MATC’s Board of Trustees...