Valley Center Superintendent Cory Gibson describes legislative requests and asks readers to connect the dots. We see merit pay for teachers, school consolidation and cuts to athletic programs but no real work on a new funding formula as we “connect the dots”. We also see a lot of administrative effort being devoted to filling out surveys at a time when they’re supposed to be getting as many dollars to the classroom as possible. http://vcsupergibson.blogspot.com/2015/11/connecting-dots.html...
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Shortchanging at-risk youth costly
“Head Start and other high quality, early childhood programs give Kansas’ younger, more vulnerable children a solid foundation for health and learning. They’re a wise and necessary investment in the state’s future. “Yet Brownback, who tried to tout healthy families as the way to economic prosperity, actually saw childhood poverty worsen on his watch. “Kansas does need thoughtful, proven policies designed to help families escape the vicious cycle of poverty. The governor’s shortsighted approach, however, only will exact a more costly toll down the line.” Read more here: http://www.gctelegram.com/opinion/future-toll-shortchanging-at-risk-youngsters-won-t-help-kansas/article_6aee4f80-0795-5229-928b-53ac2b06ec28.html?hash=a8ff723e6aaaa89ef168cc8c64894640&site=garden_city70...
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Leave a Comment How Jeffco parents beat Koch money to reclaim their district
“Jeffco was able to push back against political agendas and outside money because we came together as a community,” parent Kelly Johnson tells me. “Parents, grandparents, business owners, community leaders, students, teachers, Republicans, Democrats, and unaffiliated voters all came together to educate others and make sure they had factual information.” Read more here: http://www.salon.com/2015/11/15/we_kicked_the_koch_brothers_a_how_denver_parents_beat_back_big_money_charter_schools_right_wing_lies/...
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Leave a Comment Dierks ousted from House Education Committee
“’I just feel so sad for our state,’ [Rep. Susie] Swanson said, ‘that our system is so upside down that we take talented, qualified, thoughtful people off of important committee because they were told, some of them, ‘You didn’t vote right.’ As for you all in the field of education, that committee now, you have very few friends. I hope in the next election teachers, board members, get out and vote.’ “Deena Horst, a former state representative who now represents north-central Kansas on the Kansas State Board of Education, said she, too, was concerned about the committee assignments....
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