The K12 Performance and Efficiency Commission is meeting through this fall. While we fully support finding ways to help our schools save operational dollars to secure more funding for our classrooms, we wish to remind Kansans that schools are not factories, and we must respect the ways schools are fundamentally different from businesses. Here’s an entertaining story that illustrates the point. The “blueberry story” starts at 2:05. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9TUrHMZMno...
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New Report form Kansas Center for Economic Growth, Quality at Risk: The Impact of Education Cuts
Please read the new report from the Kansas Center for Economic Growth: A new report release today shows Kansas’ public schools are struggling with crowded classrooms, fewer teachers and other challenges after seeing their state funding cut repeatedly since the recession in 2009. See the full report, “Quality at Risk: Impact of Education Cuts”, at realprosperityks.com. http://realprosperityks.com/kac/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/KCEG-school-funding-report3.pdf...
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Leave a Comment Brownback to blame for conflict with teachers
“Besides cutting base state aid to schools – the operational money that pays teacher salaries – Brownback has seemed much more interested in advancing the agenda of libertarian groups than in aiding teachers.” Read more here: http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2014/08/brownback-to-blame-for-conflict-with-teachers/#storylink=cpy...
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Leave a Comment Editorial shows why Brownback is not an “education governor”
“Under Brownback’s leadership, public education has been assaulted. Classroom spending has fallen, while the administration tries to convince voters that money for buildings, meals, pensions and the governor’s pet projects is an increase in classroom spending. ‘When adjusted for inflation … the state’s base support for K-12 education through school district general fund budgets has declined almost $600 million,’Kansas Association of School Boards Mark Tallman explained in a detailed look at education spending. “While the rest of the country has redoubled its investment in education after the Great Recession, Kansas has sacrificed its school budgets on the altar...
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