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“‘We anticipated some growth (at the high school level), so we allocated some teaching positions, but not enough to account for 211 more kids,’ Doll said, in reference to four high school teaching positions that were added for this school year. “But other position reductions for this school year reduced high school positions. Contingency teachers for the middle and high schools — those not assigned to a classroom until closer to the beginning of the school year — were reduced from five teachers to three. The staff reductions were part of about 14 teaching positions not filled districtwide....

Shawnee Mission School District’s motion to intervene as a party in the Gannon case has been denied by the Kansas Supreme Court. The Court found that the district’s interests are not adequately represented by the parties, but also found that the motion was untimely. Oral arguments by the parties on the equity portion of the case will be heard at the Supreme Court on November 6. The adequacy portion of the case will be addressed in the spring. Read more here: http://pvpost.com/2015/09/22/kansas-supreme-court-denies-shawnee-mission-school-district-motion-to-intervene-in-gannon-case-42861...

Notice that there are no Kansas schools on this list. Let’s keep it that way. “Over the last decade, the charter school movement has morphed from a small, community-based effort to foster alternative education into a national push to privatize public schools, pushed by free-market foundations and big education-management companies. This transformation opened the door to profit-seekers looking for a way to cash in on public funds. “Riding the wave of pro-privatization, rightwing propaganda that public schools have ‘failed’ and need to be turned over to private business operators, charter school lobbyists, working with ALEC, have been able...