The next time you hear we need vouchers (or corporate tax credit “scholarships”) to give choice to poor children, think of this warning from Ohio. “Now that Ohio’s sending more than $1 billion this year to privately run Charter Schools and Private Schools through Vouchers, it is important to examine the impact of those decisions made in Columbus have on the 92% of Ohio’s kids that do not attend Charters or Vouchers. The impact is profound. Like asteroid or comet profound.” http://10thperiod.blogspot.com/2014/01/ohios-school-choice-funding-scheme.html?m=0...
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Outside the averages, some very special students
When people talk about education spending, they often seem to forget how many children with special needs there are in our school districts. Here’s a piece that explains what’s missing when people focus on averages or think that our student body is the same as it was in the past.http://heimkasb.blogspot.com/2014/02/outside-averages-some-very-special.html...
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The next time you hear we need vouchers (or corporate tax credit “scholarships”) to give choice to poor children, think of this warning from Indiana. “Students using vouchers to attend private schools represent less than 2 percent of Indiana’s K-12 students, yet the legislature concentrates on this small group at the expense of the vast majority of public school students. It is as if our policy makers have given up on public education in favor of private education, but such a strategy will never be able to address the needs of the public school students. What the report...
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Leave a Comment ALEC is bad for Kansas on broadband and bad for Kansas on education
The Kansas Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by Olathe’s Julia Lynn, has introduced an ALEC bill to ban cities from offering broadband services or partnering with companies to do so. Please watch this video-Chanute, KS vs. Goliath, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiVG9-Kb-U0&feature=youtu.be. USD 413 is one of the beneficiaries of Chanute’s broadband system. Then ask yourselves why Kansas legislators are working to pass legislation that would hurt Kansas communities, taking away local control and benefitting large corporations who have opted not to provide services to rural Kansas under the guise of free markets and limited government. And remember this is the same ALEC behind...
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