Category: Wichita and Kansas schools
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Andover schools advocacy website not complete, accurate, or balanced
The Andover Parent Legislative Council has created a website and wiki in support of the Andover, Kansas public school system (USD 385). This site, titled Andover Parent Legislative Council, is described as helping Andover schools “through legislative advocacy.” Andover parents wishing for complete facts and a balanced approach will need to supplement their research with…
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Kansas school spending study finds $717 million in potential savings
A new study on K-12 spending in Kansas concludes that schools statewide are spending as much as $717 million more than is necessary, and that implementing the “best practices” of more efficient districts could eliminate the need to raise taxes or cut spending on other essential services.
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Missing from Kansas school financing debate
As Kansas struggles to find funding for its public schools and other functions of government, we’re losing an opportunity to examine our schools and see if they’re performing as well as they should, both financially and academically. Here are some issues not being discussed:
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Kansas school spending advocates exaggerate employment losses
Yesterday I reported how Kansas school spending advocates lie about facts in order to score political points with their constituencies. Today we again see how the school spending lobby distorts facts, this time in a very substantial way concerning an important matter.
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Ad spotlights Kansas school spending
A television advertisement is calling attention to some facts that Kansas school spending advocates don’t want you to know.
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To Kansas school spending advocates, criticism comes fast and loose
As the debate over the funding of Kansas public schools goes on, sometimes facts get lost in the shuffle, and school spending advocates sometimes invent “facts” in order to score political points by criticizing those working to bring inconvenient facts to light.
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Kansas school consolidation: it won’t be the first time
An issue that some promote as a way to make Kansas schools more efficient and save money is school consolidation. It’s not the first time schools in our state have gone through consolidation. Kansas Senator Chris Steineger, who is a Democrat representing Kansas City, recently asked the Kansas Legislative Research Department for information about school…
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Kansas teachers union makes it easy to ask for money
Thanks for Kansas Liberty for uncovering an effort of the Kansas National Education Association (or KNEA, the teachers union) to make it easy for school spending advocates to ask for more tax money.
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For Kansas teachers union, fund balances are an illusion, not a solution
Today’s edition of Under the Dome Today — that’s the house organ of the Kansas National Education Association or (KNEA, the teachers union) — contains a story with the headline “Anti-Government Group launches another attack on public education.” A more accurate headline might read “School spending advocacy group refuses to acknowledge budget solution that Kansas…
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Bill would allow Kansas school districts to increase local tax levy
Kansas Senate Bill 385, introduced by John Vratil, Senate Vice President and Republican from Leawood, would let Kansas school districts increase their local property tax levies beyond what is currently allowed.
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Kansas school spending advocate on the numbers
Appearing yesterday on KPTS Television’s Ask Your Legislator, a member of the Kansas House of Representatives spoke about K-12 school funding. Jim Ward, a Democrat representing southeast Wichita, said school spending advocates are saying “We’re in a worse place that we were before the lawsuit, because now we have less money than we did in…
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On Wichita school board, are only supporters’ opinions welcome?
At this week’s meeting of the Wichita school district board, member Lynn Rogers criticized the Wichita Eagle for printing a story that include criticism by an opponent from the 2008 bond issue campaign without disclosing his involvement in that campaign.