[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.

[Norseman]

The budget is the key to all. Here’s a true story:

Under Governor Tommy Thompson (GOP) the DPI (Department of Public Instruction) was still run by an elected Democrat. Thompson kept cutting the DPI budget until they only had enough money to perform statutory functions, i.e., things they were required to do by law, like keep track of student counts, figure out what each school was entitled to in state aid, handle disputes, etc.

It got to the point where they told local schools to file a required report on site rather than send it in. One administrator said that it had gotten so bad that not only didn’t the DPI have enough staff to read the report; they didn’t even have the staff to FILE it.

The key to destroying the Left is defunding their tax dollar bonanzas. (essentially my tagline)