ESAs lack sufficient oversight and are an abuse of taxpayer dollars. The examples in Arizona aren’t hypotheticals-they’re actual, documented wasteful expenditures. So why do some Kansas legislators keep pushing them for our state? Don’t they know? Are they just hoping we don’t know? Just say no to ESAs and other...
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School Board Candidate Recommendations Across Kansas
We are seeing extremist candidates throughout the state who support vouchers, oppose teaching emotional skills and offering mental health services, oppose efforts to make all children feel welcome at their schools, use academic misinformation to criticize current board members and districts, want to impose their opinions on books over the...
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No comments Suburban Parents Fighting Back against extremist group, Moms For Liberty
“A lot of this will sound familiar to people in districts that were taken over by extremists in the last school board elections. Do you know what’s better than reclaiming your board? Not losing it to Moms for Liberty, Moms for America, the 1776 Project PAC, etc. in the first...
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No comments State Board of Ed not the place for limiting education materials and literary content, despite one member’s failed attempt
At the September Kansas State Board of Education meeting, Danny Zeck went on a tirade seeking a new requirement that teachers alert parents when they will have “smut” in instructional materials. We’ll try to unpack how wrong this was from the impropriety of Zeck’s proposal to his telling either Chair...
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