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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.
RACINE â For 13-year-old Lydia Taft, a student at Starbuck Middle School in Racine, one of the most important things is for her and her peers to have equal access to health care.
âFor a lot of kids in middle school, itâs tough,â Taft said. âTeenage hormones, anxiety.â
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Taft was one of the speakers at a press conference advocating for Governor Tony Eversâ proposed state budget and how it supports public education. The conference was held Monday afternoon at Julian Thomas Elementary School, 930 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, Racine.
Roomies and Zoomies
Just over half of students district-wide â 53% â initially opted to return to in-person learning, but Samz said almost two-thirds of SC Johnson kids have chosen in-person learning so far. And he only expects that number to increase as families who took a âwait and seeâ approach hear that things are going smoothly.
Thomas has worked to ensure that her students still have the same sort of hands-on experiences that are vital in kindergarten, but in a way that is safe. Sheâs also labored to integrate the kids still at home, dubbed âzoomies,â with the kids in the building, called âroomies.â