Portrait of Deceit, Part II
Wisconsin’s largest employer organization and state lawmakers are blasting the state Department of Public Instruction for failing to include the business community in its new “Portrait of a Graduate” initiative.
“Once again, the Madison bureaucrats believe that they know what is best for students without engaging those that employ those future workers,” Rachel Ver Velde, Associate Vice President of Government Relations for Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC), said in an exclusive comment provided to Dairyland Sentinel.
The backlash follows a Dairyland Sentinel report revealing that DPI’s public claims about the initiative do not match the actual makeup of its advisory panel. In a June 1 guest column under her own byline, State Superintendent Jill Underly wrote that the agency “formed a steering committee that includes educators, students, higher education partners, statewide education organizations, employers and industry representatives across Wisconsin to guide this work.”…