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We fully expect to see another bill to make it easier to open charters in Kansas in the 2015 legislative session. Read this article about what’s been happening in other states. “Instead of the ‘bargain’ political leaders may have thought they struck with seemingly well-intentioned charter entrepreneurs, what has transpired instead looks more like a raw deal for millions of students, their families, and their communities. And what political leaders ought to be doing – rather than spouting unfounded platitudes, as Clinton did, about ‘what works’ – is putting the brakes on a deal gone bad, ensuring those...

We are concerned that budget pressures, uncertain future school financing and legislation eliminating due process for teachers is leading good teachers to leave the profession. “Kansas school districts are reporting a higher pace of retirements in the past few years, even as the number of newly licensed teachers remains flat. More than 2,000 teachers retired last school year, or double the number that did so five years earlier, the Kansas State Department of Education revealed last week in an annual snapshot of the state’s education work force…The number of fully licensed elementary teachers employed last year in Kansas...