Monthly Archives: January 2015

Here’s a chart showing multiple ALEC education bills were introduced in Kansas and other states in 2013. These bills are not organic solutions for issues in Kansas but are part of a national agenda to de-fund public education and divert precious resources to schools that don’t serve all children and...

Last spring ALEC met in Kansas City. From a report on that meeting (recall that Kansas passed a corporate tax credit scholarship provision as part of HB 2506 in the final hours of the 2014 legislative session despite failing to pass out of committee): “Why is a tax task force...

ALEC recently met in Washington, D.C. Did your legislator attend? A few years ago, we had never heard of ALEC. Here’s some background. Listen to some of the discussion on education at the 11:45 and 23:22 points: http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-united-states-of-alec-a-follow-up/...

This is food for thought as we look ahead to the 2015 legislative session. We have heard talk of eliminating teacher collective bargaining and tying teacher compensation to standardized test scores on top of last year’s removal of due process protections for teachers. We’re also hearing of increasing numbers of...