Note that Kansas is not on this list. Why? Because we keep tighter controls on opening charters. If we do not change some attitudes or faces in the 2015 legislature, that will no longer be the case. The ALEC legislators had two major education agenda items-corporate tax credit scholarships and massive expansion of charters. They got their tax credit scholarships, so now we will have the full court press for expanded charters, despite the fact they generally haven’t led to improved academic results and have resulted in a great deal of fraud and abuse. Read this for a...
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Women for Kansas urging women to get involved politically
We recommend this new group! Some of us will attend their rally and convention Labor Day weekend in Wichita. Join us! Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/05/04/3439157/newly-formed-group-urging-women.html. Find their website here: http://womenforkansas.org. Find them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/WomenForKansas....
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Leave a Comment ALEC bills promote private, for-profit education model without public support
“When the ALEC’s cash-for-kids model is put before the voters, it is resoundingly rejected. In 27 statewide referenda on the topic, voters rejected vouchers on average 2-1. But as long as ALEC ‘models’ continue to garner bipartisan support facilitated by corporate campaign contributions or are slipped into state budgets in the dead of night — ALEC will have continued success with the ‘transformation’ of the American educational system into a profit-driven enterprise. The ALEC Education agenda not only ‘converts a public good into something private, says [chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin...
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Leave a Comment ALEC meeting in Kansas City fitting given ALEC followers in and associated with KS legislature
ALEC came to Kansas City! It’s fitting that they’ve chosen to hold their conference at the Kansas border since Senate President Susan Wagle and House Speaker Ray Merrick are both on the board, many legislators are members and Kansas Policy Institute president Dave Trabert is on the Tax and Fiscal Policy task force (the one that’s having an education subcommittee as we posted earlier). http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/01/4995778/conservative-alec-gathering-in.html...
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