Jill Underly
Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public InstructionWikipedia
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Search complete. 7 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Jill Underly".
Oct 13, 2026
Vicki McKenna Show - Shutting Down Baseload
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40:19Vicki McKennaHOST
Even though he can't read beyond fourth grade level and maybe can barely read at fourth grade level.
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40:25Vicki McKennaHOST
And those test scores we kept just like Jill Underly just did again.
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40:30Vicki McKennaHOST
We kept lowering what it meant to be proficient.
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40:33Vicki McKennaHOST
That's all that happened in the name of equity to solve the problem of racism.
Vicki McKenna Show - For Tax Increases on Poor People
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12:58Vicki McKennaHOST
It is about power.
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12:59Vicki McKennaHOST
If this were about education, then Jill Underly would have said something about schools.
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13:03Vicki McKennaHOST
So let's roll back to her state of the, um, State of Education address that nobody paid any attention to, which really didn't have that much in it, quite frankly.
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13:11Vicki McKennaHOST
She did not address the fact that scores are ...
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13:48Vicki McKennaHOST
She wasn't a substitute teacher.
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13:50Vicki McKennaHOST
She just walked in.
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13:51Vicki McKennaHOST
So Jill Underly said nothing about that issue, the fact that there's virtually no discipline in the schools and that teachers ...
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13:57Vicki McKennaHOST
One of the main reasons why teachers are bailing is because their classrooms are out of control, right? Instead ...
Vicki McKenna Show - Reset the Me Too Movement
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8:59Quinton KlabonGUEST
Just one-third.
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9:01Quinton KlabonGUEST
Um, and so you would think that this would create a lot of urgency in Wisconsin, but w- uh, if you think about the top education official, Superintendent Jill Underly, this is what she said, her exact words.
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9:11Quinton KlabonGUEST
"Wisconsin students continue to make steady progress, and we should be proud of that progress.
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9:15Quinton KlabonGUEST
At the same time, we know too many students are still not where they need to be." This is after multiple years of basically zero growth.
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9:56Vicki McKennaHOST
That's what we're calling it now.
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9:58Vicki McKennaHOST
So to go back to the old way to teach reading, $50 million, and we do not have compliance among the school districts.
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10:05Vicki McKennaHOST
In fact, Tony Evers and Jill Underly tried to use that money for DEI instead of phonics, and now we have learned, thanks to your n- your work, that we're doing functionally the same thing with math.
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10:16Vicki McKennaHOST
We've taken the existing way to...