In today’s education interim committee meeting, they addressed special education. It is a complex topic, and the confusion among the committee members showed that this would have been better handled by the task force created by the Kansas legislature last session. At the end of today’s meeting, we had one legislator mistakenly referring to phantom teachers (not understanding a district’s teacher count starts as an estimate based on last year’s numbers but is reconciled with actual numbers in June and any necessary funding adjustments made in the June payment). Another legislator didn’t understand that the SPED formula is...
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Lansing School Board, among others, targeted by New York Based PAC
The 1776 Project PAC postcards are dropping in communities where the New York PAC is trying to take over school boards with extremists. There are so many issues with their endorsements but their treasurer is even a criminal. We don’t need their influence in Kansas school boards. Originally posted on Facebook on Oct. 6, 2023....
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Leave a Comment Extremists Target Blue Valley, other districts with misleading mailers
Here come the deceptive postcards from a New York PAC. Don’t let them take over your school board Blue Valley, Baldwin City, Lansing and Chanute. From Stand Up Blue Valley’s Post: Did you check your mail yesterday? Many Blue Valley voters found this mailer from the 1776 Project PAC in their boxes. Ultra-rich investors behind 1776 want to privatize K-12 education – so they can profit from it. Award-winning, high-performing public school districts like ours stand in their way. Blue Valley Schools is the top district in Kansas and among the TOP 1% of districts in the nation....
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Leave a Comment Half of SMSD BOE Candidates No Show for PTA-sponsored event
SMAC PTA had a meet and greet for school board candidates, but half the candidates did not attend. Thank you to Jessica Hembree, Mario Garcia, Jamie Boardman and David Westbrook for briefly explaining why you are running and then making yourselves available to talk to patrons. Originally posted on Facebook on Oct. 5th, 2023....
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