“Districts are making these difficult trade-offs at a time when schools are raising academic standards and business leaders are pushing schools to prepare a work force with better skills. ‘We can’t have the doublespeak where everybody talksabout how important education is to our being globally competitive,’ said Daniel A. Domenech,...
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No comments Monthly Archives: December 2013
More questions about full-day kindergarten funding
“It would be too bad if the kindergarten funds met a fate similar to increased higher education funding that was included in Brownback’s budget last January. Although Brownback voiced support for additional funds and even toured the state near the end of the session to tout his position, he nonetheless...
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No comments Mark Pocan explains how ALEC works via the Special Needs Scholarship bill
Here’s Wisconsin Senator Mark Pocan in March 13, 2012 illustrating our concerns about ALEC using the example of the Special Needs Scholarship Program. Kansas had its ALEC Special Needs Scholarship bill last session (http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/measures/documents/hb2263_00_0000.pdf). The section he refers to regarding hiring a company with experience evaluating these programs is Section...
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No comments Poverty problem rather than an education problem
We post this article because Kansas is part of this trend, and any discussion on education spending and outcomes in Kansas needs to include the increasing numbers of Kansas students in poverty. Instead of the story line told my some that Kansas scores have been stagnant, the story should be...
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