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Thank you very much for the detailed summary of what is currently in the WI state budget bill, and likely to stay there [Scott Walker, GOP Slip ALEC Education Agenda Into Wisconsin Budget].
Consider "connecting the final dot": rather than "radical overhall of WI education, the proposed changes described in the article referenced above are most likely building the infrastructure for a totally separate educational system: governing body [state level charter school authorizing/supervising body], live humans to operate it [new teacher credentials for charter school teachers], and funding [vouchers]. Depending on how the voucher stuff is worded, the Governor could line-item veto whatever language limits it to a low number of districts, and voila, a new, parallel school system has been born. Personally, I think that this "parallel universe" is the goal, not restructuring the current system.