For the past several years we have objected to criticisms of test scores that didn’t acknowledge chronic underfunding and the impact of a global pandemic. We are putting the pandemic behind us, and the Gannon funding is finally phased in (though SPED underfunding is cutting into some of that progress), and scores are rising and other measures of student success are also increasing. Now let’s keep going. See the full report here: https://www.kasb.org/45132?articleID=143670&fbclid=IwAR3o4byurPaZ7f7RMUH0OJWRsmu8bsUyqkpHZ54PAAEf74x6Y5fNBW0gf_I Originally posted on Facebook on Oct. 17, 2023....
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Kobach asks Supreme Court to give up jurisdiction in education case
“Judith Deedy, executive director of Game on Kansas, a public education advocacy group, said she was ‘vehemently’ opposed to the court giving up jurisdiction. “’This school year is the first year of full funding of the Gannon agreement,’ Deedy said, alluding to the last name of the lead plaintiff in the school case. “’We are seeing a corresponding rise in student achievement and at the same time have heard numerous statements from legislators over the past several years indicating their irritation at having to comply with Gannon,’ she said in an email. “’The Legislature’s refusal to comply with...
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Leave a Comment Legislators looking to model Kansas ESAs after Arizona’s controversial program
The interim education committee meetings made clear that ESAs, with Arizona’s program as a model, will be coming back to the Kansas legislature in 2024. Watch this video to see why this is a terrible idea and why we will ask legislators why they’re ignoring the obvious problems with these programs. Learn more from Arizona here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLLO044pBQo&fbclid=IwAR1PxHoAYO48lQqm38XQIu5TcrfrJikqSsNPejmLRvlCUaV97qy9p7I69Yk&ab_channel=SaveOurSchoolsArizona Originally published on Facebook on Oct. 12th, 2023....
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Leave a Comment Taxpayer dollars from ESAs used for luxury vacation expenses
ESAs lack sufficient oversight and are an abuse of taxpayer dollars. The examples in Arizona aren’t hypotheticals-they’re actual, documented wasteful expenditures. So why do some Kansas legislators keep pushing them for our state? Don’t they know? Are they just hoping we don’t know? Just say no to ESAs and other vouchers. Originally posted on Facebook on Oct. 12th, 2023....
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