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Here’s more on the wonderful world of free market charters from Ohio. But some of the laid-off teachers doubted that kids will be getting a quality education next year at FCI. “It’s just been mass chaos,” said Tina Geygan, who is one of the teachers let go. “We were having kids drop out like flies.” Annette McFarland, a middle-school science teacher at FCI who also was laid off, said she can’t see how the school could reopen in the fall. “Just my own personal opinion, but I don’t know how they can,” having lost so many of the...

Budget cuts are not figments of our imagination but are real consequences of decisions made in Topeka. From the 2009-2010 through the 2011-2012 school years, there were reductions to such things as field trip and textbook budgets as well as the elimination of elementary teaching positions and a school psychologist position. The cuts have meant increased class sizes, an increased work load for other teachers and psychologists and a deterioration of texts being used. Board of Education member Carol Sue Stayrook-Hobbs said few if any people lost their jobs when cuts were made. As people vacated positions, they...