Anthony Steven Evers is the 46th governor of Wisconsin. Evers previously served as the Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction for ten years. On November 6, 2018 Evers won the Democratic primary for governor. He and his running mate, Mandela Barnes, defeated the Scott Walker-Rebecca Kleefisch ticket in the general election. He has served as Wisconsin’s governor since January 7, 2019.
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Anthony Steven Evers is the 46th governor of Wisconsin. Evers previously served as the Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction for ten years. On August 23, 2017, Evers announced his candidacy for governor, challenging two-term Republican incumbent Scott Walker. In October 2018, a divided federal appeals court found that Evers had violated neither the U. S. Constitution’s Free Exercise Clause nor its Establishment Clause when he denied busing to an independent Catholic school because there was a nearby archdiocesan school. In 2017 Evers defeated Republican candidate Lowell Holtz, a former Beloit superintendent, with about 70% of the vote. On November 6, 2018 Evers won the Democratic primary for governor. He and his running mate, Mandela Barnes, defeated the Scott Walker-Rebecca Kleefisch ticket in the general election. He has served as Wisconsin’s governor since January 7, 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree. He also served as president of the Council of Chief State School Officers and from 2001 to 2009 was Wisconsin’s Deputy Superintendent of public Instruction. In March 2016 the United States Department of Education announced that Evern had been selected to serve on the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee for Title 1, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act. In 2009 Evers used government email accounts for fundraising purposes, and in 2009 he and another government employee were fined USD 250 each for soliciting campaign donations during work hours.
In 2012 Evers proposed the Fair Funding for Our Future plan to address some of the challenges with the Wisconsin school funding system. In 2014 Evers secured increased state investment in order to increase the number of trained professionals in schools and more funding for mental health training and cross-sector collaboration. In 2015 Evers implemented Wisconsin’s Rural Schools Advisory Council based on recommendations from the council. Since it was implemented, hundreds of small, sparsely populated districts have benefitted from sparsity aid from Evers’ plan. In 2016 Evers worked with the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council and the federally recognized tribal nations in Wisconsin to begin an MOU process with each tribal nation to outline the working partnership the state seeks to establish and grow with each sovereign nation. In April 2013 Evers defeating Don Pridemore and won reelection. In November 2017 Ever won the eight-candidate Democratic primary on August 14, 2018, and was reelected to a second term as state superintendent in November 2017. He cited his criticism of Governor Walker, as well as his criticisms of his education policies, as key reasons for deciding to run for governor in 2018. In January 2019 Evers was elected to a third term as the state superintendent of public instruction. He was re-elected twice, in 2013 and 2017, and has been reelected three times since his first term as superintendent. He currently serves as the chairman of the Wisconsin Board of Education.
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