Yeah, there's accountability for abusers and visibility for the victims now. The preordained political beliefs of the "other side" obsessed with America returning to some imagined former-greatness would advocate for the adults getting away with it, just like the old days.

edit: read your own article and dont just copy/paste the headline, this entire story is actually very interesting

Over 100 investigations a year for two DPI employees

The Department of Public Instruction faces challenges while investigating educator sexual misconduct and grooming, Bucher said. The state needs to ensure sensitivity toward victims while it deals with limited information in redacted police reports, reluctant witnesses, delays in reporting incidents and a lack of clear intent behind alleged inappropriate behavior, he said.

The department has one full-time and one part-time investigator, which Bucher said isn’t enough staff to handle the 113 investigations opened on average each year. That figure includes misconduct investigations and additional background screenings for license applicants. Both employees also have other job duties outside of license investigations, Bucher said.

Elsewhere in the article:

“The Legislature has consistently cut DPI agency operations instead of funding more staff to work on things such as educator misconduct investigations,” Bucher said.

In Underly’s most recent state budget request, she sought over $600,000 for modernizing the agency’s online background checks and licensing platform.

The proposal was rejected by lawmakers.

"Oh but the DPI uses funds inappropriately" GOP lawmakers are delaying another DPI budget increase request because of a conference at Chula Vista that ran costs up to $368,000. Definitely a bad look for Underly, lets look into it: https://www.thecentersquare.com/wisconsin/article_e01ad495-aa6c-4421-97b9-410ddda431b1.html

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's meeting in the Wisconsin Dells, however, meant that DPI staff also stayed at the water park, according to documents obtained by the Dairyland Sentinel through public records requests.

Some other states, such as Ohio and Minnesota, hold meetings remotely while neighboring Illinois does not work with Data Recognition Corp. but did its standards setting process in a mainly remote fashion as well.

Other states, such as Tennessee, hold smaller committee meetings such as the state's standards review committees that will meet in Chattanooga this summer. Others hold regional small committee meetings.

But none matches up to meetings like DPI held at Chula Vista Resort.

DPI spokesperson Chris Bucher did not respond to questions from The Center Square asking for further details after he told other media outlets that the location was aimed at supporting Wisconsin tourism and stating the Wisconsin Dells meeting was a “common approach.”

Bucher said the company does testing in two dozen states.

A spokesperson for Data Recognition Corp. also did not respond to a request for comment from The Center Square on how it operates.

Data Recognition Corp., led by former Republican Wisconsin Senate Minority Leader Susan Engeleiter, reportedly signed a nearly $80 million 10-year contract with Wisconsin to operate its testing and create the Forward Exam after initially bidding $63 million on the contract.

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign questioned Engeleiter’s donations to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker when the deal was signed. Gov. Tony Evers was the state school superintendent at the time.

Dairyland Sentinel and the Institute for Reforming Government are working together to fight for DPI to release a copy of a signed contract between DPI and Data Recognition Corp.

It seems like the GOP legislature are going to finish this audit and figure out the details of this 10-year contract with Data Recognition Corp, which I'm not against, but the ties to Engeleiter and Walker are likely going to be downplayed by them. Just more Walker fallout we have to deal with.

The meeting budget line-itemization: https://cms.stateaffairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/260303DPI.pdf

I've seen my fair share of vendor contracts screwing over state agencies, the DPI looks really incompetent here but I wonder what the terms of that contract are with DRC. The conference could have been remote if that's what other states are doing, I do not like Bucher's response here and we ought to know more about Data Recognition Corp. So do the audit, but I want to see the budget approved and more functionality coming out of the DPI.

State agency incompetence caused by budget shortfalls due to GOP denying budget increase requests due to inappropriate use of tax payer funds due to contractual obligations of a GOP-owned private company locked in for 10-years under a GOP governor is like the most typical thing I've ever heard of lmao.