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Parent groups are standing up, organizing and networking.  Here’s a regional action meeting in Indiana bringing together parents from Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan.  http://publicschoolsacrossamerica.eventbrite.com/#...

Florida reforms are being pushed here, too. Whose interests are being promoted? Is this a model that makes any sense? http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=19&articleid=20130210_19_A1_ULNSbo341009  ...

 We’re all for a solution that would get funding into our schools more quickly, but the Governor is requesting a stay of the lower court’s order, and there’s something distasteful about requesting mediation at this point. The State lost the Montoy case in 2005 and was ordered to adequately fund schools. They raised funding for 1 year and then started cutting again through last year when the economy was improving. Now they’ve lost again, and the Supreme Court won’t hear new evidence, so the likelihood of the plaintifs’ success seems pretty high, so now they want a compromise....

We posted about Sen. Smith’s bill that would allow him to go back to teaching at the pay he was at when he left for the legislature after he spends his legislative career claiming our schools are overfunded and that there’s no “data” to support greater funding. Here’s an editorial:  http://www.hutchnews.com/Editorialblogs/edit–re-employment-bill  ...