Deadline extended for the 2015 Friends of Education Recognition Program. There may be no greater time to recognize those business, community organizations and public sector partners who support public education. The Friends of Education program, sponsored by the Confidence in Public Education Task Force, was established to recognize volunteer efforts throughout the state in five major categories: school volunteer, community leader, community/civic organization, business/partner activities and public sector institutions. The deadline to submit nominations has been extended through March 13, 2015. Submit your nomination(s) online at http://ksconfidencetaskforce.weebly.com/friends-of-education-nomination-form.html...
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SB 171 a bad idea despite Holmes’ statements
We oppose SB 171, which was passed by the Senate last week. The bill would move local elections, including school board elections, to the fall, with primaries in the spring. As we have posted in greater detail elsewhere on this page, although this bill is an improvement over the original bill which made elections partisan, there are still multiple issues with it, including the fact that primaries will be held in August when much of the school age population is on vacation. We also disagree with Sen. Holmes saying that opposition to this bill is just by organizations....
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Leave a Comment Wichita students get in the game by contacting legislators on SB 56
We love to see students getting into the game! “Students at Wichita East High and other area schools spent their lunch period Friday urging Kansas lawmakers to reconsider a proposal that will make it easier to prosecute teachers for distributing harmful material to minors.” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article11364563.html#storylink=cpy...
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Leave a Comment War on teachers continues with SB 56
“This should have ended where it started – with one middle school teacher’s poor decision to display a sex-education poster in the Shawnee Mission district being dealt with locally. “Instead, that incident inspired Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, R-Shawnee, to seek a state law treating teachers like pornography pushers. “Senate Bill 56, under which teachers could be charged for violation of a class B nonperson misdemeanor, need not lead to one actual prosecution to do damage. Its passage would have a chilling effect, with teachers self-censoring their choices of literature, artworks and scientific concepts to study in class on the...
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