[Cincinatus' Wife]

Oct 31, 2013: WI Schools Chief Threatens Lawsuit if Common Core Is Rejected "The state of Wisconsin has held three out of four public hearings on Common Core Standards. State Superintendent Tony Evers must be feeling the heat because he offered legislators a veiled threat that any rejection of Common Core Standards may be taken to the Supreme Court. This threat outrages citizens across the state who are trying to protect their right to exercise local control of schools.

Kim Simac, Wisconsin State Director for Concerned Women for America, Chairperson for Northwoods Patriots, and one of the major community organizers in northern Wisconsin, stated, “Superintendent Evers’ threat to jump directly to the Wisconsin Supreme Court should any legislation or decision be made to opt out of CCSS exposes his lack of confidence in the standards themselves. Those supporters of CCSS should have an arsenal of evidence that proves excellence and superiority in the product. Obviously they do not.”................

The Superintendent of Public Instruction, sometimes referred to as the State Superintendent of Schools, is a constitutional office within the executive branch of the Wisconsin state government, and acts as the executive head of the Department of Public Instruction. The superintendent is elected by the people of Wisconsin in a nonpartisan statewide ballot during the Spring primary of the same odd-numbered years that voters select members of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. The superintendent serves a term of office of four years. The incumbent is Tony Evers. Superintendents have been elected in non-partisan elections since 1902; before that, superintendents were elected by party like other state executive officers.

The superintendent's responsibilities include providing leadership for Wisconsin's public school districts; provide the public with information about school management, attendance, and performance; licensing the state's teachers; and receive and disburse federal aid for schools..."

[BigEdLB]

Line item veto of any funding for standardized testing based on national common core standards. That the LOCAL school board should determine the standards appropriate for them. This is one of the reasons I favor as Walker.

[Erik Latranyi]

Walker took the conservative path on Common Core. He neither imposed it statewide nor did he ban it statewide.

He gave control to the local districts so each can choose what is best for themselves.

That is true conservative leadership.

[high info voter]

I'm glad he did. Any parent of school children with a brain would be thanking him for getting WI out from under this stupid Common Core debacle introduced covertly by the Saudis!

CHECK THIS OUT!

[9YearLurker]

Was he as governor the one who initially adopted common core in WI?

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Walker really did good on this issue.

[Carry_Okie]

provides a pathway to offering multiple student assessment options and prevents the mandatory application of the national Common Core Standards.”

This is probably the best he could have done given a static State educational bureaucracy. The better move would have been a nice layoff at the WDPI with grants back to local school districts. I don't know if he could pull that off in with the way things are structured in Wisconsin. A governor surely could not in California.