We know a lot of current parents of school children and even teachers were not tuned in to the impacts of the Brownback tax experiment or the role Ty Masterson played in it. Please read this article and understand what is at stake in this year’s Governor election. While Ty Masterson was inflicting devastating cuts to our schools, Cindy Holscher was working on the other side as an advocate and legislator. “Over the next four years, Masterson would use his position to keep the failing tax experiment on life support. In the face of plummeting state revenues, he...
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Student Performance is More than a Test Score
It’s Fact Check Friday! Are candidates in your area sharing only one kind of student achievement data? Do you know all the ways Kansas students are succeeding? From Kansas Association of School Boards “FACT CHECK FRIDAY! What does student success really look like? It’s more than a test score. Kansas students are graduating at record-high rates, earning college credit, completing AP coursework, earning CTE and professional credentials, gaining career-ready skills and being accepted into elite programs. That’s what student achievement looks like — students leaving our public schools prepared for what comes next. When we evaluate how Kansas...
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Leave a Comment Campaigning on School Grounds
Kansas parents, at least one State Board of Education candidate, Moms for Liberty and the 917 Society are teaming up and putting inappropriately branded constitutions in our public schools. Christian Nationalism shouldn’t get promoted on Constitution Day next week. We know Shawnee Mission, Blue Valley and Olathe are not handing these out but we’re not sure about De Soto, Gardner, Spring Hill or Lansing. Parents in those communities (and possibly others we’re not aware of) should contact their school boards and superintendent. The 917 Society website is linked on their constitutions and includes fundraising for efforts to bring...
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Leave a Comment No Place for Political Theater in State Board of Education
This post does a great job explaining what happens when a Moms for Liberty candidate gets on your school board, and they’re speaking from experience. Two Moms for Liberty candidates for State Board of Education were knocked out in the primaries, but District 1 (discussed in this post) and District 3 have Moms for Liberty candidates, who were ousted from their local school boards after proving themselves unworthy of those jobs, now running for State Board. Listen to the people who experienced their tenures when they tell you they were happy to see them go. District 7 also...
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