Oversight of some Wisconsin school policies will shift from the state schools superintendent to the governor under today’s ruling by the state Supreme Court (Tuesday). The high court’s conservative majority sided with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) in its 2017 lawsuit against then-state schools Superintendent Tony Evers. Evers claimed he did not need to get executive approval from then-Governor Scott Walker for rules Evers wrote for the Department of Public Instruction. WILL’s suit cited a state law passed that same year, which requires state agencies to get approval from the governor’s office and state Department of Administration. State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor says she is disappointed by the decision and said it does not affect the constitutional independence of her office.
