Action Alert: We know, we’re posting AGAIN, and we’re sorry about that, but as we’ve been paying attention to charters, vouchers, etc., and while broadband, gay discrimination and spanking bills have been in the news, another set of bills has been quietly making their way through the legislature. This post...
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No comments Monthly Archives: March 2014
Rep. Melcher hosts Carpe Diem CEO but we don’t see that as a model for Kansas
Rep. Melcher scheduled a 2 hour promotional session with the joint education committees yesterday for a charter school based out of Arizona. Did you know that the Carpe Diem charter district and school administrative costs are DOUBLE that of Kansas public schools – 9% charter v 4% to 5% Kansas public...
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Last year North Carolina enacted legislation expanding charter schools. Kansas should heed this warning: “Buses were consistently arriving as much as 90 minutes late. Elementary textbooks had not been ordered. ‘General disorder was observed throughout the middle school,’ a summary from Prestige says, and middle school students ‘were taking naps as...
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No comments House Education Committee hearing corporate tax credit scholarship bill
The House Ed Committee held a hearing on the corporate tax credit scholarship bill (which was defeated last year). This is another ALEC bill and is a voucher bill in disguise. It allows corporations to donate money to “scholarship granting organizations” which is then given to private (often religious) schools...
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