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Here’s another example of what we don’t want in Kansas. “A federal judge in Missouri has ordered a charter school operator to pay nearly $1 million to the board of Renaissance Academy in Kansas City for saddling the school with unreasonably high lease payments. “The ruling against Imagine Schools Inc. deals with the kind of relationship that existed with charter schools in St. Louis, where critics also alleged that the company benefitted at the expense of students.” http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/judge-orders-kansas-city-charter-school-operator-to-pay-nearly/article_8cff1bc9-9cbf-57d6-ae09-c25a2f82ea3a.html...

Sen. Masterson again shows his true colors on public education funding. Will voters remember when he’s up for election? “Brownback’s allies contend it’s unfair to portray the trend as a cut because the amounts for fiscal 2016 and 2017 exceed the aid for fiscal 2014. Senate budget committee Chairman Ty Masterson suggested that the governor’s critics are ‘myopically focused’ on the changes from 2015 to 2016. “‘It’s certainly not the whole truth,’ said Masterson, an Andover Republican. “But Sen. Laura Kelly, the budget committee’s ranking Democrat, scoffed, ‘It is a cut.’ “‘You’re taking money out of the classroom,’...