We love to see students getting into the game! “Students at Wichita East High and other area schools spent their lunch period Friday urging Kansas lawmakers to reconsider a proposal that will make it easier to prosecute teachers for distributing harmful material to minors.” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article11364563.html#storylink=cpy...
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No comments Monthly Archives: March 2015
War on teachers continues with SB 56
“This should have ended where it started – with one middle school teacher’s poor decision to display a sex-education poster in the Shawnee Mission district being dealt with locally. “Instead, that incident inspired Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, R-Shawnee, to seek a state law treating teachers like pornography pushers. “Senate Bill 56,...
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Great news! HB 2326 would have changed teacher negotiations to allow districts to offer teachers individual “take it or leave it” contracts. Rep. Boldra amended HB 2326 to contain the consensus negotiations bill supported by the superintendents association, the school administrators association, the school board association and the teachers union....
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No comments Rep. Mast moves to vote quickly to avoid hearing from constituents
On February 24 in the House Social Services Budget Committee, Rep. Mast moved to eliminate funding for the Parents as Teachers program. Notably, she said they needed to vote quickly because they might start hearing from constituents. Rep. Clayton tweeted, “Argument was made: if we don’t vote for a motion...
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