“We’re hoping when there are specific calls to action, people are educated enough and motivated enough to be engaged,” he said. “We felt as a group if we could talk to people and give them the facts, they’d be astonished and willing to act, understanding what’s really going on in education.” Dan Greenberg, one of the founding members of Northwest Ohio Friends of Public Education, summing up our perspective as well. We’re part of a nationwide movement. Join us and tell your friends and family members. Read more athttp://www.toledoblade.com/MarilouJohanek/2013/11/02/New-group-befriends-beleaguered-public-education.html#sXK5RJ6OrYe6oTCg.99...
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Legislative interim committee meetings continue with “conspicuous absence” of “key education voices”
The interim education meetings continue today. Yesterday’s hearing “raised questions about the conspicuous absence of state education department staff and state school board members”. Legislative hearing on school finance excludes key education voices cjonline.com http://cjonline.com/news/2013-11-06/legislative-hearing-school-finance-excludes-key-education-voices...
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The next time you hear we need to expand charter schools in Kansas to give poor children “choice”, (like in the education interim committee meetings today and tomorrow) think of this article.http://www.salon.com/2013/11/04/the_charter_school_lie_market_based_education_gambles_with_our_children/...
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Leave a Comment Legislative interim committee to hear from school “choice” advocates
The legislative committee that meets between sessions to discuss education issues will hold its first meeting tomorrow and Thursday, and their agenda has been published. In addition to presentations by staff of the Kansas Legislative Research Department and the Office of the Revisor of Statutes, there are 2 presentations by staff of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice (which boasts on its website that it’s known as “the nation’s original advocate of school choice” and “the nation’s leading advocate of vouchers”), 2 presentations by Dave Trabert, who is both paid president of the Kansas Policy Institute (which favors...
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