Some interim education members agreed with presentations by paid staff of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and Kansas Policy Institute on a “staffing surge” but others recognized that “many other professions were included in this nonteaching category, such as special education instructors, reading specialists, school psychologists, audiologists, and speech...
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Sen. Wagle states Gannon decision in favor of schools would push legislature to change supreme court justice selection method
We’ve heard some legislators claim that the move to change judicial selection has nothing to do with wanting to reign in court protection of school funding. We hope this story ends those claims, and Kansans see what’s really going on here. “[Senate President] Wagle – whom the governor called a...
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No comments Educating and engaging parents as part of a national movement
“We’re hoping when there are specific calls to action, people are educated enough and motivated enough to be engaged,” he said. “We felt as a group if we could talk to people and give them the facts, they’d be astonished and willing to act, understanding what’s really going on in education.”...
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No comments Legislative interim committee meetings continue with “conspicuous absence” of “key education voices”
The interim education meetings continue today. Yesterday’s hearing “raised questions about the conspicuous absence of state education department staff and state school board members”. Legislative hearing on school finance excludes key education voices cjonline.com http://cjonline.com/news/2013-11-06/legislative-hearing-school-finance-excludes-key-education-voices...
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