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2025 EDUCATION POLICY SURVEY

This survey is to determine WPT member views on various topics and issues facing Wisconsin.

Understanding member sentiment on these topics is critical for the organization to accurately register its positions on tax and budgetary proposals in the next state budget and ongoing legislative sessions.

Please rate the importance of these educational policy items to help us prioritize which reforms will make the most positive impact for our kids, teachers, and schools.
1.Increase state school aid support for public school operating costs?
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2.Rework the state school aid formula to acquire more fairness in the distribution of school aid?
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3.Ensure that the public school report cards adequately reflect the achievement in schools.
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4.Provide parents with transparency of curriculum and education-related materials.
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5.Promote measuring student education quality with competency assessments.
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6.Support expansion of school choice and charter school options.
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7.Encourage schools and employers to work together to develop solutions for local workforce needs.
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8.Require teaching students about our country's founding principles.
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9.Stop transgender students from participating in the gender sport they were NOT born with.
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10.Rebuild technical education and work-based learning programs to help more kids gain hands-on experience.
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11.Continuing with Act 10, which prevents unions from making statewide collective bargaining agreements, which allows local schools to retain authority over hiring, firing, wages, and benefits.
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12.Allow professionals without a degree to teach students in their field of expertise.
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13.Please share other thoughts or ideas on what should be done to improve our public school system.