We knew. “So locking in funding for two years – though it’s more stable and certain for the state – isn’t meeting districts’ needs in a time of increasing enrollments and instruction, transportation, health and utility costs. “Who knew? “Superintendents, school boards, teachers and other education leaders did. “But they...
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No comments Monthly Archives: September 2015
ALEC for-profit education agenda threatens public schools in Georgia
In Kansas we’ve most recently had the ALEC corporate tax credit scholarship bill, in Georgia, it’s the Opportunity School District. While we wait to see which ALEC education bill will come next to Kansas, we’re watching what’s happening in other states with heavy ALEC influence. Here’s a report from a...
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Is this kind of charter fiasco coming to Kansas? Not if we can help it. The charter school model has undergone a huge transformation from its original form, and we are carefully watching states that have made it too easy to open and to hard to close charters while destabilizing...
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Game On has been called a front group for the teachers unions. We’re not. We are proud to have many teachers on the Game On team, but the majority of our leadership group and many of our greater community team members are parents and not teachers. We just understand that...
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