Category: Wichita and Kansas schools
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Wichita School Spending Incomplete Coverage
A Wichita Eagle article (Would economic crisis affect the sale of bonds?) contains some potentially misleading information about USD 259, the Wichita school district, spending. In answering the question “How much does the district spend per student?” the figure given by chief financial officer Linda Jones was $11,659 per student. This figure is based on…
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Wichita Eagle’s Rhonda Holman on Wichita school bond issue
The Wichita Eagle’s Rhonda Holman, in her recent editorial Business should get off fence on bond, urges voters to get educated about the proposed Wichita School bond issue. It would be helpful if she’d do the same.
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Wichita Premiere of Flunked! the Movie
School board members and school administrators were invited. Not many attended.
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Wichita School Bond: Is Opposing It Punishing Kids?
In a letter to the Wichita Eagle, Angela Sader of Wichita says “Don’t punish kids.” (See Letters to the Editor, October 8, 2008) One criticism Ms. Sader makes of myself and another school bond issue opponent in her letter is “A primary complaint has been that the Wichita school district and state generally are not…
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Wichita School Bond: The School District’s Refusal to Understand Nudging
In support of the proposed Wichita school bond issue, USD 259 claims overcrowding. It may be true that some schools are overcrowded, but the district as a whole has quite a bit of capacity. Wichita school district claims of overcrowding must be examined with caution. The article Do We Know if Enrollment Numbers Support Wichita…
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Wichita School Bond Issue: In Review
Wichita’s mysterious Boondoggler has a post that summarizes the arguments against the proposed Wichita school bond issue. The summary of the summary is this: The bond is too big and bloated. The bond plan is based on the wrong priorities. Passage of this bond will be positive reinforcement of the failures of the USD 259…
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Documentary Suggests Alternatives To Public School Orthodoxy
By Jim Erickson. Reprinted by permission of East Wichita News. It?s called Flunked, and this documentary, narrated by Joe Mantegna, is a shopping list of successful ideas to improve our schools. Those interested in the school bond issue and education in general might want to catch this movie at The Orpheum on October 8. Though…
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Another Wichita School Bond Cartoon Released
Helen Cochran of Citizens For Better Education has released another cartoon about the Wichita school bond issue. Click here to view this humorous commentary.
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Wichita public school logo fight legal costs
Yesterday’s Wichita Eagle reported in a story that USD 259, the Wichita public school district, “… worked for about five years to get its mark registered over the objection of Washington apple growers …” The article is referring to a logo that Wichitans for Effective Education has been using on some of its printed materials.…
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Second Wichita School Bond Commercial Released
Wichitans for Effective Education has released the second in a series of Wichita school bond issue advertisements. Visit the Wichita School Bond Channel at YouTube for more videos.
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Wichita School Bond Cost Could Rise in a Big Way
USD 259 (Wichita public school district) officials have estimated that the interest rate for the proposed Wichita school bond issue would be 4.75%. With the recent turmoil in credit markets, I think it’s impossible to forecast with any degree of certainty what interest rates on long-term bonds might be over the next few years when…
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Will Credit Crisis Affect Wichita School Bond Issue?
In Toledo, Ohio, there’s a school bond issue on the ballot this year. My friend Maggie Thurber wonders Does ‘credit crisis’ bode ill for arena and school bond issues? No one has any idea of what the market for loanable funds — the credit markets — will look like for the next few years. If…