KNEA’s Mark Desetti explains what happened in February 17th’s House Education Committee with the gut and go and passage of a new extreme anti-Common Core bill without public notice or a hearing after a talk that was to be on the history of education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69exrI2phM8&feature=youtu.be...
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House does gut and go on Common Core bill which would ban AP and IB
We’re getting questions about this so we went ahead and posted about it. On February 17th, the House Education Committee did what is called a “gut and go” where they took the contents of HB 2676 and put it into another bill 2292 and passed it without a hearing. The former 2676/now 2292 is an anti-Common Core bill worded so broadly as to prohibit the teaching of any materials or purchase of any materials aligned with common core. It specifically talks about IB and AP, stating, “If advanced placement, international baccalaureate, dual credit or other similar courses and...
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Leave a Comment Game On testifies on preliminary funding formula bill
Yesterday Game On testified against a new proposed school funding formula introduced in the House Education Committee. We realize the bill is in its early stages but we have a lot of concerns about it. “Right now as the bill is written, it really hasn’t included any parents, or educators or school boards in the decision making process,” said Erin Gould, a member of ‘Game on for Kansas.’ “What do you call a classroom, you know, what are the costs that are involved in that classroom? Does class size make a difference in a classroom?” wonders Jim Freeman,...
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Leave a Comment Legislators comment in Senate Ways and Means hearing
Today KASB’s Scott Rothschild tweeted from the Senate Ways and Means hearing on the A&M efficiency consultant’s education recommendations. We found the following tweets quite enlightening. Superintendents and school board members, if you would care to educate Senators Masterson, Melcher, Fitzgerald, Denning and Arpke on budget issues you face, parents of Kansas school children would be grateful. Kansas parents if you are constituents of these Senators, we would also like you to share your experiences and your awareness of the precariousness of the Kansas budget with them. Rothschild: Masterson, Melcher disagree with A&M statement that there were cuts...
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