When you see postcards touting the high priority the legislature has given education as elections near, remember this story, which compiles the impact of the school finance bill on several different districts. “We are running low in our contingency reserve and will have to cut two positions in our career...
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No comments Monthly Archives: May 2014
Contact federal legislators regarding favoring charter schools
We do not oppose charter schools when they act as they are supposed to-as partners to the public schools in their communities and as innovation laboratories, but we are troubled by increasing support for charters in an era when our true public schools are being told there isn’t money to...
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No comments Editorial writer angry about lack of responsible representation in Kansas legislature; we are too
“This is not what is going on in Topeka any longer. Instead we have legislators who believe that fiscal prudence means only one thing: cutting taxes no matter what the effect on institutions of government and on the public. Our legislators no longer seem to care about facts. Important legislation,...
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No comments ALEC policies result in cuts to public ed and other state services without increasing growth
“What’s worst about these ALEC policies, Chinn reports, is that the relentless budget-cutting they require leave crucial state services, particularly education, gasping for breath. That’s a formula for long-term decline, not growth. Indeed, when Chinn mapped the ALEC rankings for all 50 states against their economic growth, he found that,...
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