Kathy Bernier, R-Chippewa Falls. They will be considered at public hearings by Assembly and Senate committees Wednesday, where members of the public can testify in support or opposition. The Assembly hearing has been limited by the committee chair to four hours and an overflow room is being provided for the public in anticipation of crowds.
Earlier this year, Dittrich argued biological women and girls are “losing opportunities at titles, records, scholarships and even participation at times” because transgender women and girls are playing on their teams. She also argued biologically female athletes are put at greater risk of injury by playing with transgender female athletes.
Julie Underwood and have been active advocates against school privatization and the increasing flow of taxpayer money from public schools into private school vouchers.
The transition in leadership at the Department of Public Instruction on July 5 will mark the first transition at the department in more than 20 years (Gov.
Tony Evers previously led the department, and the current superintendent,
“I’m a public school advocate, I’m an educator and I’m a mom,” Underly told a gathering of public school advocates on Monday. “So I plan to take a different approach.”
That approach will be characterized by “more offense, less defense,” Underly said, and improvements in communication between the state’s education department and the public, including an upgrade to the department’s Byzantine website.
Wisconsin Health Insurance Pool For Schools Could Save Money, Legislators Say
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
May 3 Wisconsin school districts would get health insurance through a state-run program like that for state workers, potentially saving $500 million a year, under a plan in Democratic Gov. Tony Evers budget and in a similar proposal by an administrator for former Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
The proposed 2021-23 budget by Evers, former state superintendent of schools, calls for spending $500,000 to study requiring the state s 421 school districts to join a group health plan through the Department of Employee Trust Funds, or ETF. The budget calls for an implementation plan by the end of next year, with the program starting in 2024.
Holocaust education for Wisconsin students required for grades 5-12
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Holocaust education required for Wisconsin students, grades 5-12
Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill on Wednesday requiring Wisconsin middle and high school social studies classes to teach the Holocaust and other genocides.
MILWAUKEE - Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill on Wednesday requiring Wisconsin middle and high school social studies classes to teach the Holocaust and other genocides.
Wisconsin joins 17 other states that require Holocaust education, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. An 18th state, Arkansas, has a law taking effect next year. This bill will affect generations of kids in our state and bring increased awareness, and recognition in our schools to the tragedies of the Holocaust, the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism to this day, and hopefully cultivate a generation that is more compassionate, more empathetic and more inclusive, Evers said.
Milwaukee Public Schools board members on Tuesday elected Bob Peterson as president and Sequanna Taylor as vice president of the board for the next year.
Peterson, who has been on the board since 2019, previously served as president of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association, the union for MPS staff. He is also on the editorial board for Rethinking Schools, a magazine he helped found.
Peterson started working for MPS in 1977 as a paraprofessional. After earning his teaching degree, he taught for 30 years and co-founded La Escuela Fratney, according to the MPS website. He earned a master s degree in curriculum instruction with an emphasis on bilingual education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a doctorate with a dissertation on anti-racist teaching from Cardinal Stritch University.