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Friday, February 4, 2022

FORWARD INTO FEBRUARY

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

CELEBRATION OF ACHIEVEMENTS BY AFRICAN AMERICANS

February begins Black History Month. Join Rep. Dittrich in celebrating the trailblazers, innovators, and achievers who accomplished so much in the face of incredible adversity.

AMERICAN HEART MONTH

WEAR RED DAY

Heart disease is the number one killer of women in America and is 80% preventable. Wear Red Day is our annual reminder to pay attention to our heart health.

IN MADISON

SCHOOL CHOICE OPEN ENROLLMENT

This is indicative of where parents are with their children's education. We need to take steps to ensure parents have every opportunity to apply for school choice, including competent management of the application and enrollment process.

Parental School Choice Program Student Application

EDUCATION BILL PACKAGE

EMPOWERING PARENTS

The definition of insanity is doing things the same way and expecting different results. Rep. Dittrich believes we all want our children to succeed, but some of us are willing to boldly change the way we are currently doing things and some of us are not. She is proud to count herself as one of those who is bravely willing to stand with parents and kids as one of the original co-authors on three of the seven educational reform bills that were introduced this week. The bills offer the following:

  • Removing limits on school charters, enabling more charter schools to be formed. (2 bills)
  • Enabling City of Milwaukee families to enjoy more localized and responsive school districts with the formation of four to eight smaller districts rather than the one large district that currently exists.
  • Detailing a "Parents Bill of Rights," codifying the authority that should naturally exist between the parent, child, and school.
  • Requiring the Department of Public Instruction to have more accountability and give clear transparency of how they formulate their metrics.
  • Increasing the school property tax credit for residents of school districts that are closed to in-person instruction for more than 10 days of instruction during the second half of the 2021-22 school year.
  • Removing income and participation limits on the Wisconsin Parental Choice, Milwaukee Parental Choice, and Racine Parental Choice Programs.

Let's get every Wisconsin student moving in the right direction once again by innovatively solving this problem!

WI STATE SUPREME COURT

MAJORITY ON SUPREME COURT REFUSE TO UPHOLD LAW

While Wisconsin Elections Commission Chair Ann Jacobs scoffs at the notion of removing any hint of impropriety in order to assure voter confidence, this issue is far from over. WEC has not complied with JCRAR's directive to promulgate a rule on drop boxes.

Meanwhile, a divided state Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit challenging the power of the state Elections Commission brought by Republican candidate for governor Rebecca Kleefisch.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court Has Declined To Take Up Rebecca Kleefisch's Lawsuit Over Ballot Drop Boxes

ELECTIONS BILL PACKAGE

While WEC has thumbed its nose at the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR), more legislation has been introduced to tighten-up election procedures and to amend the State Constitution to ban election grants (commonly known as “Zucker-Bucks” in the 2020 elections).

GOP Lawmakers Circulating 5 Election-Related Bills

Republicans Propose Constitutional Ban On Wisconsin Election Grants

LUNAR NEW YEAR

YEAR OF THE TIGER

It’s the Year of the Tiger. To every Wisconsinite celebrating, Happy Lunar New Year!

IN THE DISTRICT

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations, Coach Matthies! Lakeside Lutheran High School and all of the Lake Mills Area are so very proud of your accomplishment!

WBCA Hall Of Fame: Lakeside Lutheran's Matthies To Be Inducted

KNICKERBOCKER FESTIVAL

This week the 38th will be ROCKIN' with Lake Mills' historic Knickerbocker Ice Festival. There's fun and activities for the entire family!

Tonight's kick-off and tomorrow's schedule at Knickerbocker Festival