Education Commissioner Randy Watson has been touring the state with the results of recent discussions about what Kansans want from their public schools. Here’s a recap from a recent meeting in Olathe.

“‘What we know Kansans are telling us is that, yes, students have to have good academic skills, but they also have to be able to apply those skills,’ Watson said. ‘It is about not being out of balance.’…

“That message, he said, is far from the No Child Left Behind model that schools have operated under for the last decade, where states set academic benchmarks related to reading levels and math scores and teachers taught to those standards.”

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