Here’s a piece about how charters are working in Ohio. There are similar articles from multiple other states that have gone down this road, and parent groups are springing up around the country to push back against the forces pushing this agenda. We’re already leading the tax cut experiment. Let’s...
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No comments Monthly Archives: May 2013
Sen. Wagle calls Gannon a black cloud and promises to pursue expansion of charters and other ALEC/Florida reform model bills
Sen. Wagle refers to the Gannon case as a “dark cloud” hanging over the legislature and says after the court case is resolved they’ll move forward with their education “reforms” and particularly push for expanding charter schools. She alleges charters can educate kids at lower cost. This is another example...
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No comments ALEC and other aligned forces are waging an unprecedented assault on public schools
ALEC and other aligned forces are waging an unprecedented assault on public schools in Kansas and across the country. Stand up school boards, teachers and parents! http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/2013/04/ravitch-public-schools-facing-‘unprecedented-assault’/...
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No comments Senators Smith and Pilcher-Cook share “facts”
On Monday, April 15 Sen. Greg Smith and Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook spoke at a forum at Johnson County Community College. They claimed the budget issues in our schools are really an issue of mismanagement by the SMSD school board. They also went with an apparent new party line that Johnson County...
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