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KSBOE and KSDE statement in support of teachers

We support this statement from KSDE and the State Board of Education for Teacher Appreciation Week. Dear Educators of Kansas, Thank you. Thank you for being shapers of dreams, creators of excellence, protectors of children and stewards of education. Thank you for igniting Kansas children’s passion to learn; for teaching them that all things are possible, but not always easy; that it’s okay to fail, because we learn from our mistakes; and that if life ever becomes more than they can handle, that you are their trusted shoulder of support. Thank you for standing tall in the face...
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Due process important to good teachers

“[Editor’s note: In recognition of Teacher Appreciation Week, The Topeka Capital-Journal invited area educators to have their say on issues in education that they feel are important today. Nathan McAlister teaches history at Royal Valley Middle School. Currently in his 17th year of teaching, McAlister was the 2010 National History Teacher of the Year and sits on the board of directors of the National Council for History Education.] “Due process began out of the need to protect good teachers. Indeed the very inception of the right was stated by the Kansas Supreme Court in 1957 ‘to protect competent...
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Local chambers urge support for schools, community services

Thank you to the Salina, Overland Park, Emporia, Topeka, Greater Kansas City, Northeast Johnson County, Lawrence, Ottawa, Garden City, Shawnee, Hutchinson/Reno County, Manhattan, Gardner Edgerton, and Desoto Chambers of Commerce for supporting rational tax policy which adequately supports K-12 funding and other necessary investments in our communities, and to the Kansas Economic Progress Council for reporting on this. “14 local Kansas chambers of commerce have written to Governor Brownback and the leadership of the legislature to express the concern of their members about the state’s ‘widening budget deficits and deeper and deeper cuts to important programs that matter...
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