The State Chief candidate defends the absence of a forum education license – WisConsin Public Radio News

Applicants who are struggling to overthrow the current State Chief Jill at the heart of their affairs made their deeds on a Madison forum on Thursday, one of them defending their qualification against a report that he did not have an active Wisconsin educational license.

As first reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Brittany Kinsser of Wauwatosa has never held a Wisconsin teacher license and her school administration license has expired.

Kinsser, who taught special education in Chicago 20 years ago, claims that she has a license in the past, wins a prize from the government Tony Evers when he has held the role of the state chief and has a 25-year career in education that includes Stints as a director and Consultant.

Speaking to reporters after the Madison Forum, she called the current state of education in Wisconsin “Crisis”.

“We haven’t talked about it enough and we’re talking about what we need to do better for our children,” she said. “All this licensing is a distraction from what we need to talk about: our children and their families.”

Kinser joined the event in Madison by Sauk School Chief Prariya Jeff Wright, who claims that all candidates should have an active teacher license. He said his three licenses “Allow me to literally go to schools throughout the country and to do the job with the teachers I support and the children I support in that.”

They did not attend the forum earlier. In a statement, the main manager of the Jorna Taylor campaign called the lack of a Kinser license “a bright lack of qualification”.

“Her administrator license has emphasized how little direct experience she has with the public education system itself, which he claims to be ready to watch,” Taylor said.

The role of the State Chief does not require a teacher license.

Vouchers, Test Results Central Focus

During the time lunch forum hosting Wislitics, Wright and Kinser, they focused mainly on test results, voucher program and state funding for education. He at the base had a planning conflict and “did not provide alternative dates for a previous forum”, according to the event.

The competition comes when the state is preparing for its annual budget process, which will begin on February 18, when Evers – which serves for about a decade as a state chief – reveals its budget proposal. School funding is always a major problem, with Republicans and Democrats differing in terms of how much money should go to public schools and support for vouchers.

Most recently, Republican leaders in the legislature have said they will not support additional funding for the K-12, which does not come with promises to raise school standards. At the core, he called on $ 4 billion in new costs for public education and an increase in the rate of recovery of special education.

This is after the new reading results have shown a jump in recent years – but only after DPI has lowered the skill threshold.

Wright claims that, nevertheless, public schools need more money.

“The best proof I have for this is that the area after the area after the area has to turn to its local taxpayers to ask for dollars through the referendum,” he said.

Wright, a lifelong teacher, originally by Stevens Point, was supported by the Committee on Political Actions of the Council for the Wisconsin Education Association, although the Union of Teachers did not formally approve. Previously, he ran as a Democrat for the State Assembly, losing closely in 2018 to reporter Todd Novak, R-Dodgeville.

Kinser claims that school funding should depend on “which area we’re talking about”.

“We are currently spending more on education and we are getting better results,” she said. “We have to be sure that we are transparent to our budgets and where the money is going. Does it enter the classroom or is it more bureaucracy? “

Kinser has identified himself as “the only candidate for school selection”. She has worked as a defender of charter and vouchers’ schools and is approved by Scarlett Johnson, an activist with a Wisconsin head of conservative mothers for Liberty Group.

Kinser said that many families believe that their children do not receive the education they need and that they do not listen to them.

“I support the families who make the best option for their child,” she said. “I’m pro-kids so if there are children to voucher [schools]And I will be pro-voucher schools. “

Wright said he did not support the voucher system, as it currently exists, but the work of the State Chief is not to dispute the existing system.

“We need to make sure that students learn to read and make mathematics and get access to readiness skills in all types of schools for which the state pays,” he said. “Whether it is a charter school, a school for vouchers, a public school, I want to attend these buildings.”

Asked about Wisconsin’s reading and mathematics results, which include the biggest black and white differences in the country, and in particular the low scores in Milwaukee, Wright criticized the Backy record, saying that these gaps in the achievements are “reality too long” S

“This is an example of a state supervisor who has not brought a level of urgency for this job,” he told reporters after the event. “You don’t get four years to make a plan to deal with something that is so historically a problem, so we have to do the job right away.”

Wright and Kinser cause mainly as she is looking for a second term. It was at the core served as the head of the Ministry of Public Instructions since 2021. It is supported by the State Democratic Party.

Early voting has already begun in the primary, which will be held on February 18th. The first two candidates will face each other in the April 1 election.