Tag: Jill Underly
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Redefining failure & waste
WI employers can’t find literate workers! Republicans in the state legislature are rightly holding up $1 million in funding for Jill Underly’s WI Department of Public Instruction after learning the state agency spent $368,885 to rent a Wisconsin Dells vacation spa for four days in June 2024. That is where DPI convened 88 “expert” educators,…
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Let’s make more political points!
How else can we hold Jill Underly accountable? Can’t help but imagine The Capital Times, more progressive than Zohran Mamdani in a keffiyah, wishes it had exposed Republican wrong-doing instead of getting the goods on the state’s hyper-Woke school marm, Jill Underly. But it committed some real journalism and now it has to live with…
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WI schools boss Jill Underly is a dirty liar
Attacks Brittany Kinser for incidentthat occurred AFTER her opponent left the school! It’s never too early to go negative. We’ve said it many times. We thought it unnecessary to qualify that the attack must be honest. Truthful. Based on fact. Someone make Jill Underly, WI superintendent of public instruction, write on the blackboard one thousand…
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Quit with the same old same old
Tuesday’s election is another change election! Attention authors! News outlets are hungry for your prescriptions of what Democrats can do to emerge from the political wilderness. Use your imagination! The New York Times editorial board this Sunday says (here Blaska cuts to the chase) Democrats should quit reading the New York Times.
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Shazam! Brittany Kinser could win top school job!
‘She’s certainly not a Trumpy Republican’ Political experts talk about the Bandwagon Effect. (So does Blaska.) Voters will vote for a candidate they believe will win — all other things being nearly equal. They also say money is the mother’s milk of politics. Often true, but not always. Just the same, we take it as…
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WI black leaders support Kinser for state school marm
but so do those darned Republicans! Because anti-reform Democrats protect the status quo. Wisconsin’s chief school marm has been a disaster. A scandal. Not even one-third of our elementary school kids can read at grade. The racial achievement gap hasn’t budged; only 17.5% of black students are proficient in “language arts” compared to 60.5% of…