We have been in multiple meetings with Nancy Loome of Mississippi and agree with her editorial here. Vouchers started out as a way to fund segregation academies and have continued to fail to provide quality education to children not already attending private schools. We are watching for voucher bills in the Kansas legislature this session. We hope you are, too. “The school choice crowd can’t seem to get their story straight. The first iteration of their campaign to use state tax dollars to subsidize private schools came in 1954 in response to Brown vs. the Board of Education....
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There is Nothing Conservative About Undermining Public Education
There is nothing conservative about undermining public education and running for an office you are unqualified to hold. Falsely claiming schools are not focused on academics is irresponsible and an insult to teachers and administrators. The four members of the board who currently don’t vote to accept federal funding for our schools and engage in culture war issues are extremists who either support the destruction of public education as we know it or are pawns for that movement. If we get one more of them, the board will be deadlocked, and if we get two more, the extremists...
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Leave a Comment Croft, Williams, and Thomas Treat School Boards and Teachers as Enemies
Over the past two weeks on our Facebook page we have shared videos from #ksleg leadership including House Majority Leader Chris Croft, Chair of the K-12 Education Budget Committee Kristey Williams and Chair of the House Education Committee Adam Thomas showing them treating teachers and school boards as enemies, scheming how to continue to underfund special education, and talking about how to dissolve local school boards. This is who they really are and what they think about public education. It’s particularly offensive that their campaigns don’t share what they say in private. They know their constituents support public...
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Leave a Comment Deep Dive into Board of Education Candidates
The following is a deeper dive into the tremendous risk we face of losing our State Board of Education to extremists, adapted from a piece by former Lawrence BOE member Marcel Harmon. Where Things Currently Stand After the 2022 elections we were left with six traditional State Board of Education members, and four extremists embracing various policy positions of anti-public education activists. These included Danny Zeck in District 1, Michelle Dombrosky in District 4, Cathy Hopkins in District 5, and Dennis Hershberger in District 7, the latter two defeating more centrist opponents in the primaries. During their candidacies...
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