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.
WAES Supports President’s American Rescue Plan
January 25, 2021. Statement regarding President Biden’s American Rescue Plan from Julie Underwood, President of the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools Board of Directors and Heather DuBois Bourenane, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Public Education Network.
President
Biden’s American Rescue Plan finally puts forward funding and a policy response which meets the moment that we are in. The Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools commends and supports President Biden’s proposal to provide immediate and much-needed relief to the education professionals in public schools who have worked tirelessly and without sufficient resources to meet the needs of students and parents during this global crisis.