Stand Up Blue Valley is in the game and hosting a forum Thursday, February 4th 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM High Plains Room, Blue Valley District Office, 15020 Metcalf Stand Up Blue Valley invites you to a community forum on the topic of legislation affecting our schools. Guest speaker Kansas State Rep. Melissa Rooker, (R) District 25, will give a legislative update. Blue Valley pro-education candidates for Kansas Legislature will be in attendance. Come meet others who are ready to Stand Up for our quality schools and learn how our votes can make a difference. The High Plains Room...
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Patrons wary of district consolidation bill
District consolidation bill wouldn’t directly lead to school closures but school patrons are concerned of eventual effects and impacts on school boards. This article nicely outlines the issues. http://cjonline.com/news/2016-01-27/kansas-school-patrons-wary-consolidation-bill...
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Leave a Comment Death by a Thousand Cuts report: destruction of public schools not linked to civil rights
TBT in honor of school choice week. We posted this one in 2014. “First, it is appalling that anyone would dare to equate the billionaire-funded destruction of our most treasured public institutions with the grassroots-led struggles for racial equality to which many of our elders and ancestors made heroic sacrifices. “Second, we simply cannot tolerate anyone telling us these policies are for our own good. Because we are the students they claim to be doing this for. We are the parents and family members that they claim to be helping. The communities they’re changing so rapidly are our...
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Leave a Comment Libertarian Party on public schools-government ownership, operation, regulation and subsidy should end
TBT in honor of school choice week. We did this post a while ago but it’s worth repeating. Quote of the day from the 1980 Libertarian presidential platform in 1980 when David Koch was the Vice Presidential candidate: “We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.” Kansans should remember that the Koch brothers and their funded entities including Americans for Prosperity and the Kansas Policy Institute have a...
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