Monthly Archives: October 2013

Here’s another account. We found particularly troubling the assertions by the State that the Court shouldn’t be involved in determining adequate school funding at all but citizens have recourse by voting every two to four years to oust legislators who don’t fund schools as voters might want. Unfortunately we have...

This is what real improvement looks like-professional development and collaboration-not charters and vouchers. We should be spending more time trying to emulate high performing states rather than racing other states to the bottom.http://www.lowellsun.com/portal/news/ci_24129344/teamwork-fueled-murklands-turnaround-from-underperforming-level-1?_loopback=1...

“We have an ongoing dispute over school funding, but we need to look at seriously beefing up education funding, he says, where there is value in both K-12 and post-secondary education as economic contributors.” Johnson County Commissioner Ed Peterson gets it. Education is an economic contributor not a burden to...

“These states also have among the lowest levels of educational attainment. Five of the seven states had below-average rates of adults with high school diplomas. Only one [Kansas] was above the national rate of adults with college degrees.” Time to wake up Kansas-our state is turning its back on a...