A Seven-Way Battle Royale: Candidates vie for state superintendent
Tomorrow will mark the end to a seven-way battle royale for Wisconsin’s state superintendent seat. Seven candidates enter, two will leave with the victors heading on to the spring election on April 6th.
The winner of the April election will replace outgoing State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor, whose term will end this July. The race is nonpartisan, meaning that none of the candidates have formally filed with a political party.
The seven candidates largely share the same view on one of the most pressing issues in modern education: school during the age of COVID-19. All seven support returning students to schools in the near future, most recommend offering virtual alternatives and almost all believe reopening efforts should be left up to individual districts not the state.