State superintendent candidates Jill Underly (D), Brittany Kinser (R) trade barbs in only forum before April 1 election
For more than an hour, incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly and challenger Brittany Kinser agreed on several issues: Wisconsin’s performance gap between Black and white students is embarrassing, supporting LGBTQ+ students is a must, and federal education funding can’t be cut.
In the first and only public forum before the April 1 election, Underly suggested Kinser doesn’t know how public schools work in Wisconsin.
“She makes this claim, routinely, that only 3 in 10 kids are able to read or that they are college ready. That makes absolutely no sense,” Underly said. “We’ve made incredible gains in Wisconsin. … And I think my vision has had a lot to do with that.”
Kinser, an educational consultant from Wauwatosa, fired back, saying Underly’s assertion that she is the “voucher lobbyist” is false. Kinser said she spent a decade working in Chicago Public Schools and another 10 years working in public charter schools.
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