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Please read this letter written by one of our friends in Indiana. If you skip the part about high-stakes testing (so far) and the specifics on Glenda Ritz, this could be Kansas. Note the similarities, and connect the dots. The current legislative push and funding strain are not parts of an organic Kansas movement. This is ALEC and other aligned outside forces. Kansans, tell your legislators “enough is enough”!   Here is the text of our good friend Cathy Fuentes-Rohwer’s speech at Tuesday’s rally at the State House. She justly received a standing ovation. “My name is Cathy...

Our position on Common Core: We are thrilled to see an informed discourse under the comment we posted from Rep. Nancy Lusk. We are aware that there are good reasons to support and oppose Common Core, and the Game On leadership group discussed them at our last meeting. We decided to support their implementation in Kansas for several reasons. Most of the Kansas teachers we have spoken with believe they are an improvement to teaching under NCLB. They say they will be able to teach like they used to and explore topics in more depth. They are more...

Voting for scholarship tax credits (supported by the Kansas Chamber and Catholic schools): Kelley, Cassidy, Bradford, Dove, Gandhi, GROSSERODE, Hedke, Lunn, MEIGS Voting against (thank you): ROOKER, Dierks, Ewy, Boldra, Bridges, LUSK, Winn, Trimmer and Houston. “For” voters are NOT pro-education....

We posted a link to this article on SB 196 (charters in the Senate) but the link doesn’t appear to be working. Here is the text as it appeared in Peter Hancock’s web blog on the Lawrence Journal World site: ALEC-based charter school bill getting second chance Lawrence schools are on spring break this week, a fact that sparked some fear in the newsroom that there wouldn’t be much education news f…or a few days. But Kansas lawmakers appear to be picking up the slack. Specifically, the Kansas Senate Education Committee worked through a pile of bills Monday,...