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At election time, all the candidates say they are “pro-education”. We are happy to see candidates filing to challenge some of those who appear to have a different definition of “pro-education”. http://www.kansas.com/2014/06/02/3489048/candidacies-for-kansas-legislature.html...

And here’s another example of charter mismanagement of funds. “Kent Amos, founder of one of the oldest and largest D.C. charter school networks, allegedly funneled millions of school dollars to a for-profit management company he owns, according to a legal complaint filed Monday by D.C. Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan. . . This is the second D.C. charter school in the past year to come under scrutiny for allegedly funneling tax dollars to a management company with ties to school leaders. The District sued Options Public Charter School in October alleging that its three former leaders diverted millions...

And here’s another example of charter school misappropriation of funds, this time at a charter for special ed students. Could our legislature start having conversations about solutions that work instead of “solutions” that cause more problems? The ALEC faithful in the Kansas legislature got their tax credit scholarships. Watch for an aggressive push for massive expansion of neo-charters next session. (It would be very helpful to have more legislators who understand the problems with neocharters.) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/nyregion/state-audit-faults-spending-reports-by-a-manhattan-school.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0...