% >> Frederica Freyberg: GOVERNOR
% TONY EVERS' THIS WEEK ANNOUNCED
% HE IS GIVING $90 MILLION MORE
% DOLLARS OF COVID RELIEF AID TO
% WISCONSIN K-12 SCHOOLS.
% THIS ADDITIONAL BOOST COMES AS
% STUDENTS ACROSS THE STATE ARE
% BACK IN SCHOOLS.
% MANY OF WHICH ARE STRUGGLING TO
% PUT A LICENSED TEACHER AT THE
% FRONT OF THE CLASSROOM.
% HERE AND NOW SENIOR POLITICAL
% REPORTER ZAC SCHULTZ CAUGHT UP
% WITH THE LEADING CANDIDATES FOR
% GOVERNOR AND ASKED THEM WHAT
% THEY THINK CAUSED THE STAFFING
% SHORTAGE AND WHAT THE STATE CAN
% DO TO HELP.
% [ APPLAUSE ]
% >> AND IT ALL STARTS WITH
% EDUCATION.
% >> Zac Schultz: REPUBLICAN TIMMM
% MICHELS HAS A FEW LINES IN HIS
% SPEECH THAT REFERS TO WISCONSIN.
% BUT THE NEW LINE TALKS ABOUT
% PARENTS TO SHUT DOWN QUOTE, WOKE
% TEACHERS THAT TALK ABOUT
% CRITICAL RACE THEORY.
% >> WE ARE GOING TO PUT PARENTS
% BACK IN CHARGE OF EDUCATION AND
% STOP THE CRT AND GET BACK TO THE
% ABC'S.
% >> Zac Schultz: WHEN ASKED
% DIRECTLY ABOUT THE STAFFING
% SHORTAGE, MICHA MICHELS SAYS ITS
% TEACHERS.
% >> THE TEACHERS ARE FRUSTRATED.
% I HEAR THAT FROM TEACHERS.
% THAT NOT MY OPINION.
% EVERYWHERE WE GO TEACHERS ARE
% SAYING, "I LOVE MY STUDENTS, I
% LOVE WORKING HARD, I LOVE
% TEACHING, BUT I FEEL LIKE IT HAS
% BECOME SO POLITICAL AND SOL
% BUREAUCRATIC."
% >> Zac Schultz: TONY EVERS
% AGREES POLITICS ARE DRIVING
% TEACHERS OUT BUT IN A DIFFERENT
% WAY.
% >> I THINK PEOPLE HAVE
% DISRESPECTED TEACHERS OVER THE
% LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
% AND THEY DON'T GET PAID ENOUGH.
% SO THOSE ARE KIND OF TWO BASIC
% THINGS.
% THOSE THIN THINGS ARE NOT GOINGE
% CHANGED OVER NIGHT.
% AND SO I DO BELIEVE THAT AT THE
% END OF THE DAY, WE HAVE TO
% CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR TEACHERS
% AND OUR SCHOOLS AND PROVIDE THE
% RESOURCES THEY NEED.
% >> Zac Schultz: AS FOR WHAT TO
% DO ABOUT IT, MICHELS SAYS THE
% SOLUTION ISN'T IN THE STATE
% BUDGET.
% MEANING MORE FUNDING FOR
% SCHOOLS.%>> IT STARTS WITH LE
ADERSHIP AT
% THE VERY TOP.
% AND IT STARTS WITH THE GUIDANCE
% WE ARE GIVING THOSE SCHOOL
% ADMINISTRATORS AND DPI AND ALL
% THE OTHER INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE
% OUT THERE.
% >> Zac Schultz: BUT EVERS SAY
% THE SOLUTIONS IS QUITE SIMPLE.
% >> I THINK INCREASING THE
% TEACHER'S WAGES.
% AND START TO RESPECT WHAT THEY
% DO.
% >> Zac Schultz: REPORTING FROM