The sneaky anti-public education attacks are increasing in the Kansas legislature this week. One area we’re watching particularly is new “transparency” proposals. This piece connects the dots. Please educate yourself and engage with legislators as these bills start making their way through the legislature. “This raises the question of who actually wants this flood of new information. As a parent of two kids, I have more information about their teacher’s activities than I really need. Instead, the ‘transparency’ agenda serves those who are not on the parental email list, or who are not invited to the parent-teacher meetings....
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Reasonable School Board Members Need Our Support
Hey parents, your reasonable school board members, your superintendents, and your teachers need your support. “Like other school boards, Gardner Edgerton has weathered mask mandate protests, legal threats, and hateful comments from the public during the pandemic. ‘We’ve been called names. We’ve been threatened. And it’s sad that it came to that,’ Stout told The Star. Two board members were so frustrated amid mask protests in late August that they walked out of a meeting and soon resigned. Disputes over COVID-19 protocols, school curriculum, and other national hot-button issues dominated the contentious school board elections in Johnson County...
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day we shared this video and its message that it’s important to teach children “the consequence of unchecked hate.” “This history teaches us that we can all make difference and shape a future that is different from our past. Originally posted to Facebook 1/27/2022....
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Leave a Comment Vouchers are Still Bad
Happy New Year! We hope you have enjoyed the holidays and are getting ready to advocate for our community schools and they children they serve. The 2022 legislative session starts later this month. To kick things off, here’s another explanation of why vouchers (aka “school choice”) are not an effective strategy for improving student achievement. We agree with the conclusion. “Better yet, let’s just eliminate school choice policies entirely. School choice is an experiment that we have seen fail time and time again (Milwaukee, New Orleans, Michigan), and yet the reformers continue beating the same old drum. School...
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