Get our kids back to school and get DPI back to working for families By Dr. Deborah Kerr - Mar 10th, 2021 03:44 pm
MILWAUKEE –
Deb Kerr, the kids’ and families’ choice for State Superintendent, pledged to decentralize Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction and highlighted the urgency to reopen schools while speaking at a press event at Walker Square Park in Milwaukee.
“As State Superintendent, I’ll make sure that the DPI isn’t bogged down by the dysfunction of Madison. We should be serving kids, parents, and teachers; in that order. That means we need to expand offices across the state, get folks on the ground supporting schools. We need to disperse the bloated bureaucracy in Madison to the regions they are supposed to serve. Under DPI’s current model, agency staff are plucked from the Madison area. That’s not inclusive of the diversity and the needs of Wisconsin kids,” Kerr commented.
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