Wisconsin’s leftist superintendent of education Jill Underly long ago ripped down the veneer of nonpartisanship in the state’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI).
But in recent months, the teachers union stooge has injected herself into politically charged local issues, campaigning for “progressive” candidates and using her taxpayer-funded office to propagandize a string of bomb threats to fit a false LGBT narrative.
Now scores of school board members and candidates led by parental rights proponents in the Waukesha School District are standing up and speaking out against Underly’s political meddling.
“That the DPI, through its highest ranking officer, would actively meddle in local elections and rebuke local school board members, should be viewed as a blatant conflict of interest that usurps the will of the electorate and runs afoul of local control,” write Waukesha School Board President Kelly Piacsek and board Vice President Anthony Zenobia in a soon-to-be-released public letter exclusively provided to The Federalist.
As of Monday morning, 67 school board members and candidates from across the state had signed the letter excoriating Underly for election interference.
The letter notes that the Waukesha School Board has been a “trailblazer elevating academic outcomes, parental rights and age-appropriateness over political indoctrination, divisive labeling and the sexualization of children.” In short, the conservative-led board making decisions for one of Wisconsin’s largest school districts has sinned against the left’s DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) god, and the state’s top education official isn’t tolerating such transgressions.
‘Crosses the Line’
On Saturday, March 16, Underly
