“Our local elections should remain non-partisan. They should stay in the spring so that voters can focus on really important issues in their communities and not worry about partisan politics… “But this won’t happen, because a bill written by Republican extremists is pending right now in the Legislature to move...
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Teaching candidates more difficult to attract
“Something that I believe is being overlooked as we public school educators reel from the assault upon schools by our governor and legislators is the fact that high-quality candidates for classroom teaching are becoming more and more difficult to attract… “I recently had an exchange with a young man that...
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Superintendent Steve Pegram is inviting Rep. Corbet to a school board meeting to discuss the block grant. “The response from Kansas Representative (Ken) Corbet regarding my statements about the new block grant funding was very well written. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought this was a response...
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From KASB State tax revenue revised downward by $276 million State officials on Monday decreased tax revenue estimates again, a move that could have ramifications for school funding, which makes up just over half of the state budget. Gov. Sam Brownback’s budget director, Shawn Sullivan, said in talking with legislators,...
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