Tony Evers is organizing a campaign rally at Milwaukee's historic Pabst brewery in August.(Photo: Michael Sears, Sentinel of the Milwaukee Diary)

Director of Public Schools Tony Evers & # 39; plagiarism problem empire.

Republicans issued documents Sunday documenting three more times when Evers submitted budget requests dating back to 2012, which removed almost word-for-word passages from other non-credit sources.

In one case, the Evers Education Budget contains a four-paragraph section that corresponds to the language of a study conducted by a national policy group, the only difference being that its plan for Education uses the word "pupils" instead of "students".

They also discovered that an uncredited passage from Evers' latest budget plan had also been used – verbatim and without quotations – by his office twice before.

Evers is the Democratic challenger of GOP Gov. Scott Walker in the elections of November 6th.

"Tony Evers has plagiarized several times in the education budgets he has written over the past six years. He was not able to meet the level of responsibility that a teacher would require from a third grade student, "he said. Alec Zimmerman, spokesman of the Republican Party. "When you cheat your schoolwork in Tony's position, it's called a failed leadership."

But the Evers team largely ignored the most recent attack.

Sam Lau, the Democratic candidate's campaign assistant, has accused the Republican governor, appointed for a second term, to use Evers' education budgets as a political food, and not as an incentive to find more money for students. Lau noted Walker has signed bills based on the Conservative model of legislation American Legislative Exchange Council.

"(Walker) is upset because he can not defend his past $ 800 million cutoff in Wisconsin public schools, undermining the protections afforded to people with pre-existing illnesses and giving priority to its advocates, "Lau said in a statement. "That's what's important to voters."

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In Friday's governor's debate, Evers acknowledged that four passages from his September budget plan borrowed documents borrowed from other sources.

Walker's campaign found the passages using software that detects possible plagiarism. They first accused Evers of stealing passages from Wikipedia, a blog from a focus group intern and two other sources.

But Evers then ignored the importance of the issue during the debate. It does not sanction anyone in the State Department of Public Education, but asks its staff to undergo training on the use of references and citations.

"Well, if it's the best Scott Walker has, he will not get much," said Evers. "I'll let you know, we dropped some quotes in the last pages of a budget, we talked to the people involved, it was a mistake and they solved the problem."

Evers then tried to attack the problem by saying, "My definition of plagiarism is when Scott Walker takes my budget and calls it his."

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This issue is one that marked a turning point in the 2014 campaign for the governor. Democratic candidate Mary Burkehad difficulty responding to national reports that his campaign had lifted most of his employment projects.

Walker defeated Burke that year.

On Sunday, the Evers campaign team did not dispute the accusation that its previous education plans had borrowed passages from other resources without crediting them.

In 2012, he submitted a budget application comprising four paragraphs of policy analysis on school dropouts, which corresponds to the language of a longer passage in a 2010 report from the Alliance for an excellent education. The only difference is that the Evers plan uses the word "students" three times instead of the word "students".

Republicans have noted that the 2010 study cites numerous sources in its report, which is not present in Evers' budget plan.

Walker's collaborators also discovered that one of the plagiarized passages in Evers' budget proposal in September – regarding youth work experiences – was also included in his two previous non-credit plans for 2014.

This section is taken almost verbatim from a 2011 study published by the National collaboration on the workforce and disability.

Although these three uncredited passages from Old Evers' proposals certainly add to the story, they do not seem as glaring as the four initial segments of his September plan.

State Republicans have hinted that a spokesman for Evers' education agency had said last week that the plagiarism issue contained in the government's budget plan September was a one-off mistake. However, the repeated use of policy analysis of the National Group on Workforce Training suggests that it was a persistent problem , say Walker's employees.

As the state's top school official, Evers is charged with proposing an education spending plan every two years.

But Tom McCarthy, spokesman for the state's Department of Public Instruction, hinted that his agency was aware of these undisclosed and undisclosed sections in the former budget requests. Evers.

He added: "Appropriate quotes will be in place and budget documents will be updated on Monday."

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