From Barbara Cable Casey: Parents, your teachers need your help TODAY! The attack on our collective bargaining rights is back. The following is from KNEA’s “Under the Dome”: “You might be wondering what happened to HB 2085, the bill to dismantle collective bargaining and the KSSA proposal to strip teachers...
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No comments Monthly Archives: February 2013
Senator Melcher voted in favor of mandatory 3rd grade retention
SMSD area Sen. MELCHER voted in favor of mandatory 3rd grade retention. Recall he also voted in favor of the constitutional amendment to limit the court’s ability to order school funding. Families from Trailwood, Brookwood, and parts of John Diemer, Indian Woods, SMS and Blue Valley SD, Sen. Melcher needs...
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Kansas Senate education committee voted down Governor Brownback’s 4th grade reading plan SB 169 (retains 3rd graders who fail tests) on a 5-6 vote. This bill was another example of the wrong cure. Retention decisions should be left to parents, teachers and principals, given research showing a link between retention...
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No comments Two great letters in the Wichita Eagle on the constitutional amendment bill and on school board lobbying
http://www.kansas.com/2013/02/26/2690968/letters-to-the-editor-on-public.html...
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