Monthly Archives: March 2013

Our position on Common Core: We are thrilled to see an informed discourse under the comment we posted from Rep. Nancy Lusk. We are aware that there are good reasons to support and oppose Common Core, and the Game On leadership group discussed them at our last meeting. We decided...

Voting for scholarship tax credits (supported by the Kansas Chamber and Catholic schools): Kelley, Cassidy, Bradford, Dove, Gandhi, GROSSERODE, Hedke, Lunn, MEIGS Voting against (thank you): ROOKER, Dierks, Ewy, Boldra, Bridges, LUSK, Winn, Trimmer and Houston. “For” voters are NOT pro-education....

We posted a link to this article on SB 196 (charters in the Senate) but the link doesn’t appear to be working. Here is the text as it appeared in Peter Hancock’s web blog on the Lawrence Journal World site: ALEC-based charter school bill getting second chance Lawrence schools are...

From one of our SMSD area Reps: The race to the bottom is on. Vouchers (oops, I mean scholarship tax credits) just passed out of the House education committee despite my best efforts. For the record, I voted no. To compound the problem, it was amended into a bill the...