More real facts on school funding, and it isn’t good news. When legislators left Topeka in June, they thought they had funded the school finance formula at $3,838 per pupil in fiscal year 2014 and $3,852 in FY 2015. http://www.khi.org/weblogs/budget-blog/2013/dec/11/kansas-budget-pupil-just-went-down/...
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Game On with the Kansas School Superintendents Association
We thank Kansas School Superintendents Association for inviting us to speak with them yesterday. Let’s do this! Thanks to Judith and Karen from Game on for Kansas Schools for visiting with superintendents this afternoon in Wichita. #gameonforkansasschools...
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Leave a Comment What the new PISA scores actually tell us
The new PISA scores are out. They don’t actually show American schools are failing. It’s also notable that the state of Florida, whose “reform model” is supported by some legislators in Kansas, participated as a state and did not perform well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf9UVg-TdH0&feature=youtu.be...
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Leave a Comment ALEC’s loyalty oath and secrecy
ALEC creates model bills and brings together corporate interests and legislators behind closed doors. We opposed several ALEC education bills in the 2013 Kansas legislative session. They recently even proposed to have legislators sign a loyalty oath: “I will act with care and loyalty and put the interests of the organization first.” Read more here:http://www.kansascity.com/2013/12/03/4666825/alec-sought-a-loyalty-oath-from.html#storylink=cpy. Here’s another piece on ALEC’s meeting:http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-alec-stands-its-ground/2013/12/04/ad593320-5d2c-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html...
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