The business of education in Wisconsin
from Dailycensored.com by Danny Weil
From: The Progessive http://progressive.org/education.html
On August 30 the newly-formed School and District Accountability Design Team held the first of five meetings on the UW-Madison campus. The Design Team is led by “Quad-Chairs” Governor Scott Walker, Senator Luther Olsen, chair of the Senate Education Committee, Representative Steve Kestell, chair of the Assembly Education Committee, and Tony Evers, State Superintendent of Schools in Wisconsin. Republicans hail this as a bi-partisan effort, though there was only one very skeptical Democrat in the room, Representative Sondy Pope-Roberts, ranking minority member of the Assembly education committee.
Though invited to participate, the state teachers’ union, WEAC, declined. In a July 22, 2011 press release, President Mary Bell stated, “trying to address difficult problems requires leaders at the table to have shared trust, respect and mutual commitment to public schools. There’s no evidence of shared values in three of the four leaders of this task force – they just slashed state funding for schools by nearly $1 billion and took away the right of educators to have a voice in their schools.”
According to Supt. Evers, the purpose of this team is to create “an
