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MainStream Coalition is hosting an education forum Thursday, February 28 at 7:00 pm at the Colonial Church, 7039 Mission Road, in Prairie Village.  Speakers will include Dave Trabert of the Kansas Policy Institute, a vocal critic of school funding and achievement and proponent of “free market” solutions (vouchers, online learning, home schooling, etc.) and Dr. Tom Trigg, Superintendent Blue Valley School District.  Hope to see you there!...

A little more good news from Topeka. No vouchers!  Special education “scholarship” bill that would have actually stripped students of their rights to IEPs failed to pass out of the House Education Committee on a vote of 8 – 10.  ...

The urge to meddle in public schools is especially egregious – bills would block use of the Common Core standards and require that slow readers repeat third grade, for example – given that Kansas already has a State Board of Education to make curriculum and policy decisions statewide and local school boards and superintendents to manage districts. Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/02/24/2687025/eagle-editorial-lawmakers-gone.html#storylink=cpy...

Here’s some good news from Rep. Nancy Lusk’s Facebook page. Let’s hope HB 2306 and several other troubling bills stall in the education committee.   “I want to reassure everyone that I do not support HB 2306. I agree with the 99% of climatologists who tell us that climate change is a fact. We do not need to mandate that our high school teachers should teach otherwise. There has been a false impression that the House Education Committee passed HB 2306 out of committee, but that is not so. There has been no mention of any plans for...