5-21-15 nfdl school superintendent rips republican education plan

The North Fond du Lac school superintendent says an education plan approved this week by the Wisconsin Legislature’s budget committee includes too many policy items.  Superintendent Aaron Sadoff says non budgetary items such as requiring high school students to pass a civics test before graduation or creating alternative paths for people to be licensed  to teach should be considered on their own merits.  “This isn’t new for the Republicans or Democrats, its always been going on.  If you want something you put it in the budget,”  Sadoff told WFDL news.  “But from that list there is a seismic change, a fundamental change in the way that these policies will impact how we educate our kids and how we use taxpayer money.”    Sadoff says at this point he doesn’t know how lifting the enrollment cap in the private school voucher program will impact his district.  “I don’t know.  I’m not sure what students out there would then go to St. Marys Springs or WLA or any other school that has vouchers and how that would impact us,”  Sadoff said.  “But what I do know is we would be taking public school money and we would be putting it into a private school, private schools are great, but they serve one entity, the families that send there kids there.  They don’t serve the state, they don’t have to be accountable to the state.  But now that they’re taking money and resources all I would ask is they have to do the same things we do.”