Last week, Margaret Raymond, a researcher for CREDO at the Hoover Institution (a pro-free-market think tank) who is married to Eric Hanushek (who testified for the state in the Gannon case) admitted what many of us have understood for years, which is that the free market philosophy and choice do...
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No comments Monthly Archives: January 2015
Jan Ressenger reports Pandora’s box of school privatization
Pandora’s box opened a bit wider in Kansas with last session’s passage of the corporate tax credit scholarship. Kansans should make sure it doesn’t go any further. Jan Ressenger reports on the Pandora’s box of school privatization. “These are all such nice ideas. The problem, however, in Ohio and Michigan...
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From our friends at Educate Lawrence, “The Kansas Supreme Court established the ‘Rose capacities’ as the standard for evaluating adequate funding of our public schools and sent the judgment on adequacy of school funding back to a three-judge panel. The Rose standard includes measurements of student’s knowledge of civics, economics,...
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KASB has done a position paper on districts’ cash balances, which are the subject of one of the K-12 Performance and Efficiency Commission’s proposed bills to be discussed Monday. We particularly understand that districts can’t deficit spend, and in the past 7 years, many have been concerned about mid-year budget...
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