“Kansas Supreme Court justices spent nearly two hours grilling attorneys on both sides of a case that could determine how independent the judicial branch of government is from the legislative and executive branches. “At issue is the case of Judge Larry T. Solomon, chief judge of the 30th Judicial District in Kingman County, who is challenging a 2014 law that changes the way chief judges are selected. “But underlying the case is another new law enacted as part of this year’s judicial budget bill that says if the judicial selection law is overturned, all funding for the judicial...
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Warnings about “choice” from Ohio
Here’s the latest warning on the charter industry from Ohio. It’s a long read but an important one. We should learn from their mistakes. “School vouchers, tuition tax credits, education savings plans and other money-follows-the-child schemes are also a significant threat to the existence of a viable common school system but, the focus of this presentation will be on the implications of the charter industry. The charter choice argument is a hoax. “People don’t want choice; they want a high quality thorough and efficient common school system. The charter choice in Ohio is typically of lower quality than...
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Leave a Comment Charters’ mismanagement of funds cause for concern
Yesterday in the K-12 Student Success Committee hearing, we heard testimony that both implied and explicitly said that Kansas should expand charter authorizers beyond districts. This study highlights some of our concerns. “Four major policy concerns are identified: 1. A substantial share of public expenditure intended for the delivery of direct educational services to children is being extracted inadvertently or intentionally for personal or business financial gain, creating substantial inefficiencies; 2. Public assets are being unnecessarily transferred to private hands, at public expense, risking the future provision of “public” education; 3. Charter school operators are growing highly endogenous,...
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Leave a Comment Chains running many of America’s charter schools
Many of these are not laboratories of innovation testing methods that could be applied to public schools. They are chains taking money from the states in which they operate. Read more here: https://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/picture-post-week-follow-up-on-whos-running-americas-charter-schools/?utm_content=buffer0175a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer...
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