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Extremists Vie for Seats on Blue Valley School Board

Don’t hand your school board over to extremists. From Champions For Lansing Education: “Here’s the thing: the last election didn’t flip the board from liberal to conservative- it flipped from moderate to extreme. The problem is the extremists like 1776 Project PAC & their endorsed candidates are so “Conservative” they see moderate views as a threat. This election, we want to flip it back to moderate. Early voting starts in 1 week- let’s do this.” Originally posted on Facebook on Oct. 10, 2023....
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Interim Committee Discussion of Special Education Plagued with Inaccuracies

In today’s education interim committee meeting, they addressed special education. It is a complex topic, and the confusion among the committee members showed that this would have been better handled by the task force created by the Kansas legislature last session. At the end of today’s meeting, we had one legislator mistakenly referring to phantom teachers (not understanding a district’s teacher count starts as an estimate based on last year’s numbers but is reconciled with actual numbers in June and any necessary funding adjustments made in the June payment). Another legislator didn’t understand that the SPED formula is...
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Extremists Target Blue Valley, other districts with misleading mailers

Here come the deceptive postcards from a New York PAC. Don’t let them take over your school board Blue Valley, Baldwin City, Lansing and Chanute. From Stand Up Blue Valley’s Post: Did you check your mail yesterday? Many Blue Valley voters found this mailer from the 1776 Project PAC in their boxes. Ultra-rich investors behind 1776 want to privatize K-12 education – so they can profit from it. Award-winning, high-performing public school districts like ours stand in their way. Blue Valley Schools is the top district in Kansas and among the TOP 1% of districts in the nation....
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