“required them to keep the documents from the public, including their school boards”
The documents DPI sent to school superintendents are the very documents WILL requested.
DPI also sent school superintendents the final “joint federal notification packets” on ESSA, which also stipulated that the information not be made public before March 5.
As a result, DPI could be applying a federal accountability system to schools and districts without having any state legal authority to do so, WILL argues.
Wisconsin’s DPI unilaterally wrote Wisconsin’s state plan with very little input from the state legislature and governor, WILL argues. WILL’s testimony before the Wisconsin Assembly Education Committee expressed that state law requires DPI, and other state agencies, to follow specific laws before creating regulations.
The Wisconsin DOI was lead by current governor Tony Evers for many years. The DPI has waived thousands of elementary teacher reading content knowledge requirements.
Much more on the foundations of reading, here.
