In the race for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Rose Fernandez and Tony Evers have differing views on education policy. Fernandez wants to give control and responsibility to parents, teachers, and local communities, with state bureaucracies playing a supportive role. Evers wants state bureaucracies and teacher unions to have the most control, with little input from other groups. While Evers has decades of experience in state education administration, Fernandez has worked as a business administrator and parental advocate. She wants local communities to determine success measures and accountability. Evers favors more state taxes and control through the education bureaucracy. A vote for Fernandez empowers local groups, while a vote for Evers means more state mandates and less

1. In the race for State Superintendent of Public Instruction on April 7th you have two choices. Rose
Fernandez wants to put control and responsibility first in the hands of parents, teachers and local
communities; state bureaucracies should play a supportive but subservient role. Tony Evers wants it the
other way around: state bureaucracies and teacher union presidents with the most control; parents,
teachers and local communities with little.
Their background describes why: Evers has spent decades in state education bureaucracy. Fernandez
has worked as a private business administrator and parental advocate to keep the DPI from shutting her
charter school. I talked to both personally (for a full account of the interviews you can visit my blog at
(htt://wildwisconsin.blogspot.com). Fernandez wants to see the parents of Menomonie, Spring Valley,
Downsville and every other part of the state decide how to measure success in our schools and reward
or hold accountable those in charge. Like Obama she believes that teachers should be compensated
according to results and From private and homeschools to educational curriculum she wants to put
Menomonie parents not the state at the helm.
Not Evers. Evers would like more taxes and control funneled through the Madison bureaucracy he
knows so well to manipulate. From failure in Milwaukee (that drains all district budgets) to squashing
innovations like online public schools he will continue the worst of Madison’s status quo.
A vote for Rose Fernadez is a vote to empower Menomonie parents, teachers; our local community. A
vote for Tony Evers is a vote for more Washington/Madison mandates and taxes plus no local control
and accountability.
Vote Rose Fernadez April 7th.