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Dumb and Dumber: Killing the Superintendent of Public Instruction. | BustED Pencils

Dumb and Dumber: Killing the Superintendent of Public Instruction. | BustED Pencils:

Dumb and Dumber: Killing the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



Under an elected Superintendent of Public Instruction, Wisconsin public schools are now subject to:
  1. Act 10-Banning the human right of collective bargaining.
  2. An almost unlimited increase in the use of voucher money to fund private education.
  3. For profit Charter School expansion.
  4. Accelerated Accountability to fuel the “failing Public schools” narrative.
  5. Using student test scores to evaluate teachers (This practice has been dismissed as “junk science”).
  6. Legalized public school take overs.
  7. The ability to dismiss the authority of locally elected school boards in “failing” districts.
  8. Excessive cuts to public school spending.
Anything I missed?
This is why I’m so confused over Wisconsin republicans’ desire to either eliminate the Dumb and Dumber: Killing the Superintendent of Public Instruction. | BustED Pencils: