“That is one reason the tax credit program rankles public education advocates. “’It’s only going to provide education to a very small number of students,’ Patrick Woods, president of the Topeka Unified School District 501 school board, said of the program. “Skeptics like Woods argue many private schools engage in...
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Christian schools forefront in controversial tax credit scholarship program
“Sheryl Spalding, president of the Johnson County-based Mainstream Coalition and a former Kansas legislator and member of the Blue Valley school board, doesn’t agree. She points to Article 6 of the Kansas Constitution: ‘No religious sect or sects shall control any part of the public educational funds.’ “’And yet they...
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“G.A. Buie, executive director of the United School Administrators of Kansas, said in an e-mail that the governor’s ‘comments are being made as if school districts are not already putting every dollar possible into classroom instruction.’ “Buie said the governor overlooks expenses that are necessary for learning to take place....
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No comments Manhattan Mercury asks for money rather than talk
From an editorial in The Manhattan Mercury: Instead of talk, how about money? Sam Brownback’s education advice gets cheaper by the word. It lost a little more value Tuesday when he was offering the state’s school districts some tips on how to improve the education they deliver to their students....
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