“Rep. Melissa Rooker, R-Fairway, a moderate whose district includes Shawnee Mission schools, said the governor and legislative leaders make it seem as if the state has only two options: take money from certain districts or defy the court and risk closing schools. “’It’s being framed as an either/or proposition and...
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No comments Monthly Archives: March 2016
War on public education
“Kansas’s long-admired K-12 system is being subjected to a systematic effort to dismantle it and to shift money currently being spent on public schools to private and religious institutions, a group of three legislators told the attendees of a MainStream Coalition forum on eduction on Tuesday. “With more than 200...
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Well said. Untold charter story The Eagle featured a rather disturbing commentary touting charter schools (“State’s educational system lacks choice,” Feb. 19 Opinion) by Robert Litan, a former Brookings Institution economist who recently resigned his affiliation with the think tank after a violation of a policy rule. Litan mentioned paying...
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No comments Beware anti-public school agenda in NJ and KS
This New Jersey editorial is very well done. Just substitute Kansas for New Jersey, Kansas Policy Institute for Pacific Research Institute, and Koch brothers for Walton Family Foundation, and it is applicable here. “The school-choice debate is delicate and complex. The core idea of providing students with options to escape...
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