Position Sought. The Wisconsin Muslim Civic Alliance announced this week it is supporting Dr. Jill Underly for State Superintendent of Public Instruction and Judge Jeffrey Davis for the Court of Appeals District 2. Age (as of Election Day) 43. Most recently, she’s spent the past six years as the superintendent at the Pecatonica School District. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Please donate! In 2019, the Pecatonica Area School District expanded the program to all district families so they could send their 4K child to preschool every day at no additional cost. Jill Underly (L) and Deborah Kerr (R) By: SCOTT BAUER, AP Posted at 10:10 AM, Mar 29, 2021 . The candidates advanced as the top-two finishers from the February 16, 2021 primary. Dr. Jill Underly is a licensed superintendent and has worked as a teacher and administrator in the public schools system since 1999. Wisconsin Democrats Endorse Dr. Jill Underly for State Superintendent By Democratic Party of Wisconsin - Feb 17th, 2021 01:39 pm (MADISON) — Following yesterday’s primary election, the … GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Wisconsinites will vote in a state primary election on February 16th to narrow down the field of candidates running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Underly Raises $1m in State Superintendent Race Wisconsin schools superintendent candidate Jill Underly raised more than $1 million in February and March. She also enjoys food preservation, reading, traveling, being outdoors with her children, and reflecting on ways to leverage research and policy to make lives better for the next generation of Wisconsinites. The State Superintneandt race is one that WMCA leadership has kept a close eye on. Some of her former students now work at corporations such as Facebook and Google. Underly, who had the backing of the state’s largest teachers union, led the pool of seven candidates with 27% of the vote. Deborah Kerr, the former superintendent of the Brown Deer School District in the northern Milwaukee suburbs, faces Jill Underly, the superintendent of the rural Pecatonica School District in southwestern Wisconsin. MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin schools superintendent candidate Jill Underly holds a huge money advantage over opponent Deborah Kerr with the election days away, new campaign finance reports show. Jill Underly has served as a teacher, principal, school administrator, and in the state’s Department of Public Instruction. But she’ll probably receive a reprimand from the school board of the Pecatonica School District, where she serves as superintendent, if that. Dr. Jill Underly knew she wanted to be a teacher way back in 1986, when she was in the 3rd grade. Jill Underly, the Pecatonica Area School District superintendent who won the teachers’ endorsement, and Deborah Kerr, the former superintendent in Brown Deer who was the only candidate with widespread conservative support, were the top two-vote getters in a crowded field of seven candidates, based on unofficial results. She also taught along side the English Language Learner teacher and worked with students who were the children of migrant farmers from Mexico. As a leader at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Dr. Underly was involved with the development of the online federal grant software program that streamlined requirements and made claiming funds from federal grants seamless, saving business managers and bookkeepers countless hours in paperwork. WEAC’s recommendation, based on feedback from public school educators across Wisconsin, is based on Underly’s decades-long perspective as a teacher and school leader. Here she taught U.S. History and World History, and U.S. Geography. Tony Evers. (1999 – 2005). Underly's campaign also received about $68,000 from state teachers unions in the last two months, including $18,000 from the Milwaukee Teachers' … MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin schools superintendent candidate Jill Underly raised more than $1 million in February and March. She came to Wisconsin in 2005 to pursue her graduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, as a doctoral student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. As soon as she was able, she began substitute teaching in elementary and middle school settings. staunchly opposed to private school voucher expansion, Mental Health and Emotional Wellness Support. As Pecatonica’s chief learning officer, administrator, and business manager, Dr. Underly led initiatives to mitigate the open enrollment problems that plague rural school districts. After meeting her husband, John, they moved to a suburban area for John’s job. State superintendent candidates Deborah Kerr and Jill Underly will advance to the spring election, which will determine who will be Wisconsin’s next top education official. In 2015, she was the youngest female superintendent to lead a public school district in Wisconsin with a research-doctorate degree. Reach out so we can work together to elect Jill Underly on February 16, 2021 and on April 6, 2021. She advanced from the primary election on February 16, 2021. 2008-2012 Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin – Madison. While in Graduate School at UW Madison, Jill worked primarily with first-generation college students from rural Wisconsin and urban Milwaukee, many of whom commuted to Madison daily. The race for Wisconsin schools superintendent. With over two decades of public education experience, including her current 6 years as the Superintendent of the Pecatonica School District and 5 years at the Department of Public Instruction in both Educator Licensing and Title I, Dr. Underly has been committed to ensuring that every child, every day, has the opportunity for a first-class public education in the State of Wisconsin. The winner will replace Carolyn Stanford Taylor, who took over as state superintendent in … Jill Underly has been a high school teacher, university advisor, elementary and middle school principal, and now she’s a superintendent in Southern Wisconsin. During the March 11 forum, her internet connection was so horrible … She also was her teacher’s association vice president. 2000-2004 MA in Secondary Education Curriculum and Instruction, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. In 2017, the Pecatonica Area School District was one of the first public schools to offer a full day 4K program and daycare program at the elementary school. TMJ4. Let’s get Jill’s name out to the entire state and inform everyone that she is the best candidate to advocate for public schools, libraries, and every child, every day! The race to lead Wisconsin’s state education agency — like so many education battles over the past year — has centered on the COVID-19 pandemic and the ways it has widened existing inequalities. Her $1.16 million raised this year through March 22 is more than the general election candidates raised, combined, in the 2009, 2013 and 2017 campaigns for the office — campaigns that each included now-Gov. … Jill Underly is running for election for Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction. The state superintendent candidate forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Wisconsin Public Education Network (WPEN) was not a dull affair. She was inspired by the first teacher in space, Christa McAuliffe, and decided to go into public service “when she grew up.” Throughout high school she worked in a family daycare and volunteered on the pediatrics floor of the local hospital. The Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), the state’s largest union of educators, recommends Dr. Jill Underly for the Superintendent of Public Instruction. She coached the freshman softball team, and was the Assistant Varsity Coach, and Jill also sponsored student council, where they facilitated charity events such as a high school “battle of the bands” for childhood cancer research. Other roles: Head/Varsity Softball, JV Softball and Freshman Softball Coach; National Honor Society Sponsor, Student Council Advisor, Frankfort Education Association Vice President, Social Studies Department Chair. The primary saw the second-highest turnout for a Wisconsin State Superintendent … Jill’s first teaching job started the week after she finished student teaching, and was at a large comprehensive rural high school where she taught U.S. History, Government, Sociology, and Midwestern History. Jill Underly had technical difficulties that served to illustrate one of her campaign priorities. Others were not so lucky. This model is now being replicated in public schools, and especially rural schools, throughout Wisconsin. Pecatonica Superintendent Jill Underly and former Brown Deer Superintendent Deb Kerr meet April 6 in the race to become superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction. 1995-1999 BA in History and Sociology (double major), Indiana University, Bloomington. In the 7-candidate primary election in February, Underly finished first, earning about 27% of the more than 326,000 votes cast. Underly is vying with former Brown Deer Superintendent … Kerr, a former school district superintendent, received 26.5% of the primary vote, and Underly, a current school district superintendent, received 27.3%. In the summer of 2015, she brought a summer enrichment day camp for local families of elementary aged children, which was awarded a “Standing up for Rural Schools, Libraries, and Communities Award” from the Department and the Wisconsin Rural Schools Association in 2016. Underly’s not a conservative. Underly, who currently serves as the superintendent for Pecatonica schools, and Kerr, a former Brown Deer superintendent, filed reports Monday evening detailing their fundraising and … Jill Underly hopes to be elected as as State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Join her newsletter and email list! Dr. Underly and her siblings are all first generation college students, having grown up in Northwest Indiana where their father was a second-generation IBEW industrial electrician and their mother a homemaker. And on April 6, Pecatonica Area School District Superintendent Jill Underly will face former superintendent of the Brown Deer School District Deborah Kerr. There were many tomato fields in the area and a large cannery nearby. State election law experts say Underly, who sent out two campaign-related emails on the taxpayer’s dime clearly broke the law. COURTESY DEBORAH KERR AND JILL UNDERLY 2 … Deborah Kerr (left) and Jill Underly (right) were the top two vote-getters in the primary election for state superintendent. Dr. Jill Underly for WI State Superintendent of Public Instruction They live on a small farm in southwestern Wisconsin and raise a menagerie of chickens, farm cats, and a Labrador Retriever among a grove of fruit trees and a large vegetable garden to sustain themselves, family and friends. Prior to moving to Wisconsin, Dr. Underly was a high school social studies teacher where she primarily taught government, U.S. History, Midwestern History, and Geography. As a leader at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Dr. Underly was involved with the development of the online federal grant software program that streamlined requirements and made claiming funds from federal grants seamless, saving business managers and bookkeepers countless hours in paperwork. While teaching in her first few years, she was named department chair of the social studies department, started the high school girls’ softball team, and she was one of the sponsors of the National Honor Society. CESA 3 Professional Advisory Committee Chair (2017-19), Elementary Principal and Director of Instruction (2014 – 2015)Pecatonica Elementary School, Hollandale, Wisconsin, Education Consultant & Assistant Director (2009 – 2014)Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Senior Student Services Coordinator, University of Wisconsin – Madison, College of Letters & Sciences Undergraduate Academic Services, General Dean’s Staff (2005 – 2009). School District Administrator (2015 – current)Pecatonica Area School District, Blanchardville, Wisconsin; SAA Legislative Committee (2017-19), WASDA Executive Committee (2019-current). With over two decades of public education experience, including her current 6 years as the 2020 battleground election Jill Underly (left) accused her fellow candidate for Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction Deborah Kerr (right) of being transphobic after Kerr indicated her support for a … Deborah Kerr and Jill Underly are running in the nonpartisan election for Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction on April 6, 2021. She said she wants to bring those experiences to the state to advocate for Wisconsin’s kids. The 2021 spring elections will be held Tuesday, April 6. Teacher, Munster High School, Munster, Indiana, and Frankfort Senior High School, Frankfort, Indiana. Jill now taught at a much larger high school with a lot more resources. “I’m running for the kids of Wisconsin,” she said. Deborah Kerr (left) and Jill Underly (right) are running for Wisconsin State Superintendent in the April 6th election. Since 1999, Jill has worked in “all facets of public education, PK – 16:” as a high school and middle school social studies teacher, a University of Wisconsin College of Letters & Science academic advisor, a Title I Consultant and assistant manager at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, an elementary principal and Director of Instruction, and most recently, a rural school district superintendent. Jill Underly’s campaign fundraising in the race for Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction is unprecedented. 971 talking about this. About Jill Underly for Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Jill Underly is a licensed superintendent and has worked as a teacher and administrator in the public schools system since 1999. 2005-2008 MA in Educational Administration and licensure in Educational Administration. As a candidate she has emphasized improving rural broadband access. 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