DPI has yet to provide all the public documents I requested 14 months ago.
I enlisted the help of the Institute for Reforming Government. It shouldn’t take threats of legal action to get government agencies to release public data, but here we are.
Eventually, DPI did release SOME of the information we requested a year ago, and that led to our reporting of the $368,885 waterpark workshop.
We are still awaiting more public documents, including the contract DPI signed with Data Recognition Corporation, the vendor who facilitated the standards-reset process.
Now, IRG is calling for state lawmakers to establish a “Special Committee on Oversight of the Department of Public Instruction” because the reliance on waterpark workshops (Yes, there have been more than the one that was convened to reset the standards) raise troubling questions of how taxpayer dollars are being spent by the Department.
There are many layers to this scandal.
Dairyland Sentinel, and the public, deserve access to all public records, including the Department’s contract with Data Recognition Corporation.
Taxpayers deserve a full accounting.
Wisconsin citizens deserve the truth.
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Legislative Letter to Jill Underly on Wisconsin Literacy.
More.
DPI standards.