While the Bradley Foundation-funded right hoped to hand control of state education programming to a Governor named Walker, not Evers, it will celebrate a 4-2 decision along barely-concealed partisan lines by the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday to further remove expertise from policy-making and overlay education statewide with conservative goals.
All of which makes the 2022 gubernatorial election an even more-critical referendum on the integrity of the State Department of Public Instruction,
school choice, diversion of tax dollars from public schools and GOP hostility to public employee bargaining and representation issues.
And in the meanwhile, look to the right to litigate against other state agencies or rule-making in the name of so-called strict constitutionalism or liberty and on behalf of power even more heavily concentrated in the Governor's Office..
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled the state schools superintendent must get the governor's approval before passing administrative rules, a reversal of the court's previous decision that upheld the office's authority to set its own policy.The right takes a long view of its battles and priorities, so a now three-and-a-half year delay in handing the keys to the school house to a Walkerite Governor won't be much of a disappointment.
All of which makes the 2022 gubernatorial election an even more-critical referendum on the integrity of the State Department of Public Instruction,
school choice, diversion of tax dollars from public schools and GOP hostility to public employee bargaining and representation issues.
And in the meanwhile, look to the right to litigate against other state agencies or rule-making in the name of so-called strict constitutionalism or liberty and on behalf of power even more heavily concentrated in the Governor's Office..