ALEC Education Task Force Advances More of the Cash-for-Kids Agenda “ALEC’s Education Task force persists in pushing a legislative agenda focused on funding private education institutions, including religious-based private education organizations, and using education laws to give tax credits to lessen the taxes paid by corporations. “In Arizona, ALEC will be presenting the Digital Teaching and Learning Act, based on legislation that has already passed in Utah. This bill prescribes a $75,000,000 funding scheme for technology in schools that would siphon funds for public schools and mandate those funds be used for technology in both public and private...
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Lunn unconvinced by spending studies
“Scott Frank, the audit division’s director, will offer the refresher course on the audit. ‘It’s a very strong, statistically significant relationship,’ Frank said. “That study is unlikely to sway legislators like Rep. Jerry Lunn. He is an Overland Park Republican on the student success committee who took note of a $300 million increase in K-12 spending in the past three years and simultaneous decline in Kansas students’ performance on NAEP exams. In the past few years, Kansas’ scores on reading and math tests have fallen closer to national averages. “Lunn said it didn’t make sense for the education...
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“His strategy only devoured state budget resources and chewed through dollars intended for public schools, highways, social services and other vital state programs. “The reality is that states faring better than Kansas weren’t force-fed income-tax cuts as a way to generate job growth. States are rebounding post-Great Recession without the extremist policies that resulted in Kansas’ self-inflicted budget crisis.” Read more here: http://m.gctelegram.com/opinion/craving-truth-kansas-recent-job-figures-fall-short-of-a/article_ae11c7d5-03da-590d-9fd5-3fdb2ca7531e.html...
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Leave a Comment State financial turmoil likely to pose funding challenges for SMSD
“The financial turmoil that continues to churn in Topeka as the next legislative session approaches is likely to again pose funding challenges to the Shawnee Mission School District, Superintendent Jim Hinson told the Board of Education Monday.” Read more here: http://pvpost.com/2015/11/24/smsd-board-approves-legislative-platform-as-superintendent-renews-warning-about-potential-for-withheld-funds-44976...
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