Well said, Mr. Reever. “The classroom is the heart of a school district, and the rest of the district works to make the classroom a better place to learn. That is the mission of every school district. Unfortunately, this mission is not cheap, and its value to the classroom is not easily reduced to a line item on a spreadsheet.” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article51540270.html...
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KS Supreme Court strikes down law changing chief judge selection
The Kansas Supreme Court struck down a law the legislature passed last year taking away its responsibility for selecting district court chief judges. We are among many who viewed that law as an attack on the Supreme Court and retaliation for school funding decisions. “In a 43-page opinion in the case of Solomon v. Kansas written by Justice Eric Rosen, the court upheld a lower court decision that said the new law violates the separation of powers doctrine as well as Article 3 of the state constitution, which gives the Supreme Court ‘general administrative authority over all courts...
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Leave a Comment Game On walker Von Wagoner files to challenge Pyle
Lauren Van Wagoner is in the game! We know a lot of people are doing things they hadn’t done before-contacting legislators, politely talking politics with friends, learning how to unspin the spin on education policy and funding, walking 60 miles to Topeka and even running for office. “Van Wagoner joined Game on for Kansas Schools in March 2015 and walked 60 miles in three days for public education. “’It was a life changing event, and I knew then that I wanted to be the voice for Kansans,’ she said.” Read more here: http://www.holtonrecorder.net/news/van-wagoner-files-kansas-senate-seat...
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From the Twitterverse, Superintendent Darrel Stufflebeam (@dstuffelbeam) explaining “classroom” spending: “Things that do not count as ‘classroom spending’ (this will take more than one tweet): teacher training, food service, bus drivers,… “More things that do not count as “classroom spending”: natural gas, librarians, nurses, counselors, speech therapists, principals, … “Third tweet of things that don’t count as “classrooms spending”: superintendents, custodians, fuel, insurance, secretaries, electricity,… “Fourth and final tweet of things that don’t count as “classroom spending”: phone service, copier service, water. “Should add that constructing classrooms does not count as ‘classroom spending’. That’s right, classrooms are not...
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