Was This Culver's Dream?

Is it possible that District Administrator Culver suddenly decided that the 'timing was right' to start/build a charter school to simply compete with other area school districts to "be first" at doing something?

We hear rumblings that Culver's "dream" is not only to have a charter school in Sun Prairie, but also to have the charter school be 'the first to do something'.

Now we see the following announcement from Verona on Channel3000.com's website, and we just have to wonder. Did Culver get scooped?

Verona School Board To Vote On Proposed Charter School
Vote Scheduled At Monday Board Meeting January 18, 2010

The Verona Area School District Board of Education will vote on adding a third charter school to its district on Monday night. The proposed school would offer the state's first Mandarin Chinese for a language immersion program. The program would consist of one class to start with. That class would enroll [sic]kidnergartners and first-graders, who would spend half their days learning in Chinese and the other half learning in English. The school would open in the fall of 2010.
The board meeting is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. on Monday.

File this in your rapidly expanding "Things That Make You Go Hmmmm" folder.