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Betsy DeVos did not succeed in dismantling public education during her four-year tenure as Donald Trump’s secretary of education. That’s because, despite the billionaire campaign donor’s determined efforts, the federal government is not the primary battleground in the fight for the future of our schools. Most of those big battles play out at the state and local levels of government. So, now that she’s on the outs in Washington, DeVos is taking her crusade back to states such as Wisconsin where she and her allies are conniving to influence Tuesday’s election for state superintendent of public instruction.
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Special interest groups have spent more than $1 million, mostly on attack ads, weighing in on the April 6 election for Wisconsin s next superintendent of schools, according to tracking by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
It s more than has ever been spent on influencing a superintendent race in the state. The previous high, according to WDC research director Mike Buelow, was $693,700 in 2009, the year that now-Gov. Tony Evers was first elected to the schools office.
Most of the special interest spending in this race, $797,600, was by left-leaning groups supporting Jill Underly, superintendent of the Pecatonica School District, and opposing Deborah Kerr, former superintendent of Brown Deer Schools. Spending included: