We face these same issues and same opponents in Kansas. We find it beyond ironic that the very same people who argue for increasing efficiency and consolidation in Kansas public schools also argue for greatly expanding charter schools in Kansas and removing the provisions that have kept charters in our state from having the massive fraud and abuse issues created in other states that have proceeded down that path. From Diane Ravitch’s blog, “Ed Berger says that if schools are judged by who chooses them, the people of Arizona have spoken: 85% of the state’s children are in...
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K-12 Student Success committee holds first meeting
“A special legislative committee charged with studying ways to finance public schools in Kansas held its first meeting Friday, October 23rd but it did not even begin discussion of a new funding formula. “Instead, the Special Committee on K-12 Student Success sifted through a mountain of data about how schools are currently spending their funds and how they account for the difference between “classroom” and “non-classroom” expenditures.” Read more here: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/oct/23/k-12-committee-begins-looking-school-finance/...
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Leave a Comment Lawmakers continue to bully school districts
“For now, as Schwab’s recent email and Brownback’s continued comments show, GOP lawmakers seem content to bully school districts that dare to speak out on how taxpayers could finance better K-12 education in Kansas.” http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article41224263.html...
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Leave a Comment O’Donnell shows he’s not pro-public education
Here’s a tip. If your legislator acts like the block grant funding, which freezes operational budgets at unconstitutional levels, takes away some of the equalization aid that was granted to comply with the Gannon equity decision, and fails to account for rising enrollment was a wonderful thing for Kansas schools, and cites Kansas Policy Institute numbers on school funding, your legislator is not what we would call pro-public education....
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