Game On team, thank you for getting in the game for the 2023 school board elections! Notably, the 1776 Project PAC candidates were successful in 2 of the 13 seats they sought (including one in a district where there were 5 traditional candidates running for 4 seats and split the...
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No comments Monthly Archives: November 2023
Advocates refute calls for “an end to Social Emotional Learning” at state BOE meeting
In late September, the Kansas Republican Party passed a resolution calling for an end to Social Emotional Learning (SEL). We heard that multiple people were planning to offer public comments at today’s State Board of Education meeting in Topeka, so our own Judith Deedy spoke to encourage the board to...
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No comments School board elections results show that Kansans reject extremism and support public education
Before we wrap today, I would like to note that far-right conservative candidates appear to have fallen short in Johnson County and Baldwin City school board races. According to the Game on for Kansas Schools group, ‘It was a very good election (though not perfect) for traditional candidates and a...
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No comments Resilience and improvement in Kansas public schools, despite underfunded years
We have just gone through years of underfunding our schools, lengthy court cases and political battles to finally get adequate and equitable funding, and we have recently experienced the worst disruption to education in a century — the COVID pandemic. “And here is how we have emerged from these significant...
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