Those of you in the business community who know how important Kansas public schools are to Kansas businesses in terms of having an educated workforce and in being a place business leaders and their employees want to send their children to school, please join us in speaking up in support of public schools. “’We have to resolve our issues with school funding,’ said Ty Patton, general counsel at McCurdy Auction. ‘That is such a black eye for our state. It’s embarrassing.’ “Indeed, while education was once a solid selling point for bringing people into Wichita, a decade of...
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Tax Credit Scholarship 2016 Legislative Report
We’re working on our testimony for the bill that would massively expand the tax credit scholarship program. The documents on the Kansas Department of Education website are quite enlightening. Here’s the 2016 report: http://www.ksde.org/Portals/0/School%20Finance/Action%20Items/Leglislative%20Report%20January%202016%20%20TCLISSP.pdf...
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Leave a Comment Superintendent explains future issues with consolidation bill
The school district consolidation bill “sets up future school boards and the State School Board to do the dirty work of closing buildings, eliminating jobs and local school boards because most of educations costs are in personnel meaning the only way to significantly reduce costs are closing buildings and eliminating staff. Lost in this argument is any concern with improving student performance and better preparing them for the future. The proponents of the bill don’t even attempt to give lip service to school improvement, it’s about reducing expenses.” Read more here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/513/supt_blog-_a_faded_old_photograph_.pdf...
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Leave a Comment AFP-organized school choice rally met with grassroots public education rally
“Al Frisby, a member of Move On and a retired Shawnee Mission biology teacher, said the public school rally was organized in response to the school-choice event. He said champions of public education were concerned about state tax dollars flowing to private schools. “’There’s no transparency with these private schools,’ Frisby said. ‘They don’t have oversight by the school board. We give them public money…and then they just go do what they want to do.’ “David Dorsey, a policy analyst with the conservative-leaning Kansas Policy Institute, said expanding options for educating Kansas children was beneficial to all. “’Well,...
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