We oppose bundling of funding to comply with Gannon with ideological education policy. We also resent the begrudging attitude of legislators like Sen. Masterson: “If you’re a conservative person who doesn’t want to add the money we’re talking about, it’s kind of like value shopping,” he said. “If I’m going to spend this much money, I want to know what I’m going to get for my dollars.” http://m.ljworld.com/news/2014/mar/19/school-funding-fix-may-get-linked-other-policy-cha/...
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ReRoute the Roadmap: Consolidation no solution for rural Kansans
From ReRoute the Roadmap. We agree that rural Kansans are entitled to a strong public education, too. Mark writes to us in response to the question, “Has the legislature looked at any consolidation ideas to reduce administrative costs for school systems?”: It’s also helpful to note that those thinly populated areas of the state where consolidation has been accomplished still suffer from an absence of the economies of scale that taxpayers and school children enjoy in Sedgwick and Johnson Counties. They are, however, citizens of Kansas and therefore entitled to “adequate” funding. It is more expensive per pupil...
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Leave a Comment AG Schmidt cautions against defiance of Gannon court order
“I’m worried, in this building of compromise, we’ll end up at the $80 million or $90 million level and a lot of ways to shift around the formula to look like we’re balancing things,” Henry said. http://m.cjonline.com/news/state/2014-03-18/ag-schmidt-cautions-against-defiance-court-order-school-case...
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Leave a Comment Community opposes actions of politicized school board in Jefferson County, CO
Warnings from Jefferson County, CO about politicized school boards. This is not what we want in Kansas. http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_25367409/what-jeffco-school-board-is-doing-is-shameful...
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