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Garden City Telegram: Legislators turn to ALEC for poor plan on schools

Legislators turn to ALEC for poor plan on schools. Another attempt to undermine public schools materialized last week in the Kansas Statehouse. Faced with an order to come up with an estimated $129 million to remedy constitutional violations of school finance law identified by the Kansas Supreme Court, some lawmakers looked to take advantage of the situation. A Republican-backed House bill was proof. It called for addressing the school funding requirement, but also included expansion of charter schools, overhaul of teacher licensing and tax breaks for private school scholarships. The misguided proposal drew sharp criticism, and for good...
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Kansas communities depend on schools from Defend the American Dream – Kansas Public Schools

Here’s the latest blog post from our friends at Defend the American Dream – Kansas Public Schools. Send them your story! http://www.defendthedreamks.org/communities-depend-on-schools KANSAS COMMUNITIES DEPEND ON SCHOOLS March 24, 2014 · by DefendTheDreamKS · Bookmark the permalink. · It takes all of us to defend the American Dream in Kansas — and we welcome the voices that tell our story. Here is a guest blog from Gary Scott, a lifelong Kansan and champion of the role of public schools in local communities. Like an axel with two wheels, Kansas communities and Kansas public schools rely on one another. If one stops working, the other won’t...
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KHI reports poverty toll on Kansas schools

We’ve heard legislators accuse school districts of artificially inflating free and reduced lunch numbers to bolster funding, and we’ve heard people talk about achievement gaps while glossing over the very large and very real increase in numbers of children living in poverty in our state. Read this article for a reality check: http://www.khi.org/news/2014/mar/24/poverty-takes-its-toll-kansas-schools/...
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