Help us get more moms, dads, grandparents and friends to the polls in August and November and help them understand that AFP/ALEC/Kansas Chamber “reforms” aren’t about students as much as they are about privatizing and spending less on public education. http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article643175.html...
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NYT sees charlatans and cranks dictating Kansas policy
“So how did the charlatans and cranks end up dictating policy in Kansas, and to a more limited extent in other states? Follow the money. For the Brownback tax cuts didn’t emerge out of thin air. They closely followed a blueprint laid out by the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, which has also supported a series of economic studies purporting to show that tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy will promote rapid economic growth. The studies are embarrassingly bad, and the council’s Board of Scholars — which includes both Mr. Laffer and Stephen Moore of the...
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Leave a Comment Sun Sentinel finds mismanagement, inadequate academics in Florida charters
Earlier this week we posted about a multi-article expose on charter schools in Michigan in the Detroit Free Press. Now the Sun Sentinel in Florida is exposing charter exploitation there including financial mismanagement and insufficient academic programs. We note that Florida is often held up as a model for education “reform” including massive expansion of charter schools. This is no model for Kansas. http://interactive.sun-sentinel.com/charter-schools-unsupervised/...
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Leave a Comment Kansans will protect hometown schools
“The audacity of Merrick continually attacking Kansas teachers, along with Gov. Sam Brownback’s ‘experiment’ that has Kansas in dire financial straits, has gotten the attention of Kansans from Stilwell to Parker and from Liberal to Leavenworth. Kansans know they have good public schools and that good Kansas teachers are, in many instances, the bedrock of their Kansas communities. Kansans will protect their hometown schools and communities from ruin by showing up at the polls and defending their state’s values.” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/06/26/3526350/letters-to-the-editor-on-red-shirts.html#storylink=cpy...
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