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“Last week we ran a story about a poll on school finance issues conducted by the conservative think tank Kansas Policy Institute, including reaction from education advocates who said the questions were loaded with false or misleading information that appeared aimed at eliciting a negative response. At the time, KPI defended the wording of the question, as did the polling firm SurveyUSA. Since then, however, another education advocacy group, the Kansas Association of School Boards, has weighed in with more information, prompting KPI to concede that one question was misleading.” http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/first-bell/2014/jan/5/kpi-admits-to-faulty-poll-question/  ...

Peter Hancock provides a helpful explanation of the history of possible outcomes of the pending Gannon school funding case. http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/first-bell/2014/jan/6/top-three-ways-supreme-court-could-avoid/...

Wisdom from a mom in North Carolina, where legislators adopted several aspects of the ALEC education agenda last session and cut education funding leading to decreased pay for teachers. “There is so much more to do. We have to let our teachers know we have their backs. Although parents divide along so many lines—religious or secular, liberal or conservative, vegetarian or meat-eating, working in or outside the home—most of us deeply value our public schools. Together, we will test Margaret Mead’s belief ‘that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.’ Our children face a...

This piece states our concerns. “Perhaps the most debated notion in elementary and secondary education these days is school choice. It is invoked constantly by so-called educational reformers and politicians (an overlapping pair), who arouse the public by asking, ‘Why shouldn’t everyone have the same choices the rich folks have?’ Of course that’s a red herring and is neither the intent nor the result of school choice.” http://www.vnews.com/home/10055345-95/steve-nelson-real-agenda-of-school-choice-advocates...