Wisconsin’s state superintendent is telling the Republicans who wrote the state budget that they’ve lost the ‘game of chicken’ over millions of dollars in money for schools that stayed open last year.
Superintendent Jill Underly wrote a defiant letter to the heads of the legislature’s budget writing panel yesterday. She blamed them for a standoff over 77 million-dollars in coronavirus money for schools, accused them of not following the law, and accused them of playing politics. Underly’s letter is in response to a letter from the lawmakers asking her for a plan to spend the money after they say she and the U.S. Department of Education colluded to keep the 77 million-dollars from schools that were open for at least half of the school year last year.
