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Deborah Kerr (left) and Jill Underly (right) were the top two vote-getters in the primary election for state superintendent.
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After the Feb. 16 Primary Election, the field for Wisconsin State Superintendent for Public Instruction has narrowed from seven to two people Deborah Kerr and Jill Underly. Kerr is the former Brown Deer School District superintendent and Underly is the current superintendent of the rural Pecatonica School District.
Carolyn Stanford Taylor, who currently holds the seat, was appointed state superintendent in 2019 by Tony Evers, who held the position before he was elected governor. Stanford Taylor decided not to run in this election.
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Deborah Kerr (left), the former superintendent of Brown Deer Schools, is running against Jill Underly, superintendent of the Pecatonica School District in southwestern Wisconsin. (Photo provided by the candidates)
On Tuesday, Wisconsin voters will choose a new state superintendent of public instruction to lead the state’s education system.
This position is currently held by Carolyn Stanford Taylor, who decided not to run after she was appointed to the position in 2019. The office was previously held by Gov. Tony Evers, who resigned to take the office of governor.
Deborah Kerr, the former superintendent of Brown Deer Schools, is running against Jill Underly, superintendent of the Pecatonica School District in southwestern Wisconsin. The candidates differ primarily in their approach to reopening schools during the pandemic and the expansion of the voucher funding system.
Special interest groups have spent more than $1 million, mostly on attack ads, weighing in on the April 6 election for Wisconsin s next superintendent of schools, according to tracking by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
It s more than has ever been spent on influencing a superintendent race in the state. The previous high, according to WDC research director Mike Buelow, was $693,700 in 2009, the year that now-Gov. Tony Evers was first elected to the schools office.
Most of the special interest spending in this race, $797,600, was by left-leaning groups supporting Jill Underly, superintendent of the Pecatonica School District, and opposing Deborah Kerr, former superintendent of Brown Deer Schools. Spending included: