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Up for Grabs: Wisconsin Voters Show Limited Familiarity with Spring Election Candidates, Marquette Poll Finds
Less than a month before the April 1 election, most Wisconsin voters don’t know enough about the candidates for state Supreme Court or state superintendent…
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Wisconsin Lawmakers Probe DPI Over School Report Cards, Testing Standards
March 5, 2025 State legislators kicked off an audit Tuesday targeting the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s school report cards and testing…
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IRG Advocates For Teacher Apprenticeships to Address Shortage
A new report from the Department of Public Instruction reveals a startling trend in Wisconsin’s public schools: nearly 20 percent of Wisconsin teachers leave…
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Powerful State Committee Joins Our Search for Facts from Jill Underly’s Department of Public Instruction
February 26, 2025 In a significant push to unravel the murky decisions behind Wisconsin’s education benchmarks, the Joint Committee on Audit has embarked on…
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DPI Superintendent Candidate Brittany Kinser, In Her Own Words
The current Superintendent of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Jill Underly, faces two challengers on February 18th. She is being challenged…
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Underly, DPI Shrug Off Complaints Over State Benchmarks; Superintendent and Her Department Have Yet to Comply With Open Records Request
2.6.25 This is an update to an earlier Dairyland Sentinel post. Although still not providing records requested by Dairyland Sentinel last month, the…
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Dairyland Sentinel Has a Dozen Questions for DPI Candidates, Will Publish Answers Upon Receipt
The current Superintendent of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Jill Underly, faces two challengers on February 18th. She is being challenged…
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Wisconsin Lawmakers Propose Bill to Realign State Education Standards
Each year, Wisconsin elementary students take the Forward exam, while high school students take the ACT. Traditionally, the performance categories were…
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Dairyland Sentinel Files Records Request with DPI Over Forward Exam Benchmark Changes
Originally published, January 21, 2025 The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has recently undergone a significant overhaul of the Wisconsin…
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IRG: When will DPI account for $13M in federal school aid?
As the Department of Public Instruction continues its press tour for $4 billion in new education spending, it still has not publicly accounted for all of the…
