{"id":15932,"date":"2025-03-28T22:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15932"},"modified":"2025-03-29T00:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T00:03:35","slug":"tony-evers-backs-lower-educational-standards-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15932","title":{"rendered":"Tony Evers Backs Lower Educational Standards for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2025\/03\/28\/tony-evers-backs-lower-educational-standards-for-kids\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tony-evers-backs-lower-educational-standards-for-kids\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2025\/03\/28\/tony-evers-backs-lower-educational-standards-for-kids\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tony-evers-backs-lower-educational-standards-for-kids<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maciverinstitute.com\/news\/gov.-evers-vetoes-learning-standards-legislation\">He was never for the kids<\/a>. He is always for the government bureaucracy. Always. Every. Singe. Time. Meanwhile, more and more Wisconsin kids will be disadvantaged because they can\u2019t read, write, or do math like they should.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gov. Tony Evers on Friday vetoed the legislation that would have restored learning standards and report card scores in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many reasons, this is an untenable result for kids, for schools, and public education in Wisconsin,\u201d Evers said in his veto message. \u201cMost importantly, metrics for school scores and standards should be based on science, data, doing what\u2019s best for kids, and improving student outcomes, not the whims of legislative party control or what is politically palatable for lawmakers in the legislature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would have restored Wisconsin\u2019s standards to what they were the year before COVID, and realigned them with the Nation\u2019s Report Card.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin State Superintendent Jill Underly ordered the standards changed last fall. She claimed she made the change to \u201cbetter reflect\u201d what Wisconsin school kids are actually learning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2025\/03\/28\/tony-evers-backs-lower-educational-standards-for-kids\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tony-evers-backs-lower-educational-standards-for-kids He was never for the kids. He is always&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15933,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932\/revisions\/15933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}