18 Sep 2025
The Wisconsin Challenge Academy retires the colors as the ceremony nears its end.
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"Finally, we are rebuilding and modernizing the Department of Public Instruction itself so that we can be a stronger, more effective partner to every school, every educator, and every community."
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"We must recruit and retain the very best educators — and keep them in our classrooms.
"We must meet the mental health crisis with urgency and compassion."
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"Mental health is not separate from academic success. It is the foundation of it.
"You cannot expect a child to thrive when they are in crisis. And you cannot expect an educator to give their best when they are running on empty."
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"These are our kids. All of them. And when adults build fences to keep them out, when we tell them that they don’t belong, it is not just cruel, it is dangerous."
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"It’s not just one group of kids.
"It’s the kid who doesn’t know where their next meal will come from.
"It’s the kid still learning English, navigating a world that too often makes them feel invisible.
"It’s the rural kid lacking access to opportunities."
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"In every corner of Wisconsin, an unprecedented mental health crisis grows.
"LGBTQ kids — and especially trans kids — face staggering rates of depression, anxiety, and self-harm when they are excluded or singled out."
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"Our schools are not failing. We are failing our schools. And we cannot afford to keep writing this chapter."
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"At the state level, decades of insufficient investment have forced a historic number of districts into an impossible situation.
"We cannot afford to keep pulling resources away from public schools to fund private ones and expect both to thrive."
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"We teach our children to stand up to bullies. But this year, the biggest schoolyard bully in our public schools is our own federal government."
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"Our federal government, rather than being a partner in education, is threatening the very resources our schools depend on to serve their most vulnerable students.
"We're seeing attacks driven by nothing more than political agendas and hatred."
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18 Sep 2025
The Wisconsin Challenge Academy has begun the Presentation of Colors.
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The 2025 State of Education Address is coming up at 12 p.m. today!
Please join us on @WisconsinEye: wiseye.org/?p=31934
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I said it at #StateofEdWI and I'll say it again,
Public education is a public good. Public education belongs to every single child.
It is our responsibility to ensure our students get the best education possible. Let's keep doing the work - together.
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Like @DrJillUnderly said, let’s make sure our public schools have the funds they need to succeed.
From special education funding to mental health support, @AssemblyDemsWI are ready to make it happen.
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"Rebuilding Wisconsin’s strong, high-quality public education system requires that we adequately and equitably fund our public schools.
"So today, I am calling on the state legislature to increase revenue limits and sustainably fund our public schools."
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"We need to continue to focus on progress, not perfection.
"When you believe in our public schools, in all the folks who make them work. When you believe in our students – our wonderful, bright, challenging, and sometimes, struggling students."
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"We need to ensure that we are funding special education, nutrition programs, farm-to-table programs, and more.
"The list of what we want to do and what we can do is long, and we need your help to make these priorities a reality."
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