An area state representative is questioning a vetoed bill about education standards.
Governor Tony Evers vetoed Assembly Bill 1 in its entirety and would have changed the standards of test scores back to what they were before the COVID-19 pandemic.
3rd District Assemblyman Ron Tusler quotes Evers saying that the standards need to be as high as possible but says the governor is giving a “pathetic excuse” about “trying to hold the Department of Public Instruction accountable.”
Evers said in a letter that he vetoed the bill because it would “override the state superintendent by freezing school score and standard metrics to what they were years ago and effectively prevent the state superintendent from ever updating the metrics without the legislation approval.”
Tusler says State Superintendent Jill Underly lowered the standards, and “Evers is giving up all his authority to let her get away with it and cover up his involvement in test scores.”
The scores were changed earlier this year to, as Underly put it, better reflect how students are doing on their test scores like the Forward Exam and pre-ACT tests.
The Republican-authored bill would have reverted the scoring under the previous DPI head, who was now the governor, Tony Evers.
