Here is some additional insight into SMSD’s new superintendent and the issues the district is facing. It also includes input from Game On members. .http://m.pitch.com/kansascity/jim-hinson-shawnee-mission-school-district-independence-school-district-funding/Content?oid=3405187...
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The ALEC version of charter schools has been failing in Ohio after over a decade.
“Charter schools have been touted as the key method by which Ohio was going to improve public schooling in Ohio for over a decade. Charters have long been given flexibility by the state to try innovative programs and have been frequently exempted from many of the same regulations that constrain traditional public schools. Charter schools have also been promoted as providing competition to “failing” urban schools under the premise that the competition would cause both the charters and the districts to make dramatic improvements. According to StateImpact Ohio, “Charter schools were supposed to offer students who weren’t succeeding in...
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Leave a Comment Public Schools: Make Them Private by Milton Friedman
For those of you trying to understand whether there really is a move to privatize public education, please read this piece by Milton Friedman entitled “Public Schools: Make Them Private”. Having seen that the charter and voucher experiments conducted in other states have done nothing more than siphon needed funds from public schools, we disagree with his conclusions. But make no mistake, this movement is being pushed in Kansas through charter bills and voucher bills despite its lack of success. Some of you have asked, where does all this privatization nonsense come from? Well, it primarily comes from...
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Leave a Comment Brownback’s first judicial selection opposes court protection of school funding
Stegall “included a 51-page analysis on education funding he wrote in 2009, concluding that Kansas Supreme Court decisions forcing higher spending were an ‘exercise of raw power’ asserting ‘unfounded authority.'” Unfortunately we aren’t surprised by Stegall’s views on the court’s role in education funding cases-they’re just what we expected in a Brownback nominee after the hijacking of the judicial selection process. We must all ensure this doesn’t happen to the Supreme Court. This issue is directly related to school funding.http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2013/aug/29/top-democrat-kansas-governors-staff-spar-over-cour/...
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