On that Friday, Evers vetoed legislation that would have banned Wisconsin’s K-12 schools from teaching students and staff about systemic racism, part of the national Republican effort to prevent any discussion of racial history.
“I object to creating new censorship rules that restrict schools and educators from teaching honest, complete facts about important historical topics like the Civil War and civil rights,” wrote Evers, a former public teacher and state school superintendent.
“I trust parents, educators, and schools to work together to do what is best for our kids — work they have long been doing without political interference and micromanagement from politicians in Madison.”
Other education censorship bills that have not yet reached Evers’ desk — one aimed at public higher education, another at diversity training for state employees — have the same racist undertones as the K-12 measure.