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Wichita School District: Is Another Bond Proposal the Best Idea?
Read more: Wichita School District: Is Another Bond Proposal the Best Idea?The Flint Hills Center for Public Policy in Wichita has a report titled USD 259: Is Another Bond Proposal the Best Idea? The Wichita School Board is pushing a $370 million bond and Wichita taxpayers should contemplate whether or not this is really going to improve student performance in Wichita. While spending has more than…
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Wichita School District: Accountability is on Our Terms
Read more: Wichita School District: Accountability is on Our TermsUSD 259, the Wichita public school district, wants to be held accountable. They say so. It’s a theme of the proposed bond issue, as recently stated by celebrity spokesman George Fahnestock: “…the district?s accountability is strong…” (See CARE launches Yes For Kids campaign) But what happens when citizens seek information from USD 259 that will…
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Sebelius out of the office campaigning for Obama
Read more: Sebelius out of the office campaigning for ObamaKansas Liberty reports that Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is spending quite a bit of time out of our state campaigning for Barack Obama. The article Sebelius out of the office campaigning for Obama provides details. The article reports that some Kansas Republicans are not pleased with the governor being out of town so often, and…
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Rhonda Holman’s Kansas Energy Policy: Not Good for Kansas
Read more: Rhonda Holman’s Kansas Energy Policy: Not Good for KansasWichita Eagle editorialist Rhonda Holman writes “[Kansas Governor Kathleen] Sebelius gets it. Too bad the Kansas Chamber does not.” This is the end of her lead editorial from today titled Kansas Chamber protecting past. In it, she claims that the Kansas Chamber of Commerce is out of touch with the reality of global warming, and…
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School Choice Resource Center Now Open
Read more: School Choice Resource Center Now OpenI’ve created a small portal of information and links about school choice. I hope to expand this as I become aware of more school choice resources and success stories. Particularly, I want to include more information about school choice initiatives in Kansas. The link to the page is here: School Choice Resource Center.
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More Kansas National Education Association candidate questions
Read more: More Kansas National Education Association candidate questionsThe “Kansas Political Action Committee,” a group associated with the Kansas National Education Association (KNEA, the teachers union) has a questionnaire it asks candidates for the Kansas legislature to complete. After reading a few of these questions, it became clear to me that the questions are formulated to advance the interests of the teachers union…
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Wichita and Kansas General Election Coverage
Read more: Wichita and Kansas General Election CoverageMy page of coverage of the general election for Wichita and the surrounding area is available. Click here to view it. I don’t think I have all the candidate websites listed yet, so if I’m missing any, please send it to me though the contact page. I’d prefer an email message rather than a comment.
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Another Wichita School Bond Issue Cartoon
Read more: Another Wichita School Bond Issue CartoonHelen Cochran of Citizens for Better Education has released another political cartoon whose topic is the Wichita school bond issue. Click here to go to CBE’s website and see this cartoon. The others are there, too.
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Wichita School Bond at the Football Game: The Video
Read more: Wichita School Bond at the Football Game: The VideoFriday night a friend and I attended the Wichita Heights at Northwest high school football game. We found out it’s pretty hard to get into the game without being exposed to a variety of “informational” presentations regarding the bond issue. I use the term informational in quotes because these presentations are made in a way…
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Flunked the Movie Coming to Wichita!
Read more: Flunked the Movie Coming to Wichita!Up through 4th grade, American students are above-average when tested against students of other nations. After that, they begin a steady decline to the point where, by the 12th grade, American students are down near the bottom. Something is wrong in American education. Flunked went out and found some teachers who are doing something about…
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Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey Architecture: Wichita School District’s Favorite Architect Has Hand in Everything
Read more: Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey Architecture: Wichita School District’s Favorite Architect Has Hand in EverythingRecently I obtained the contract for the construction of Stucky Middle School for USD 259, the Wichita public school district. Something I observed is that Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey Architecture was not the architect. Instead, it was Gossen Livingston Associates, Inc. Gossen Livingston was one of the hosts for the kickoff of the “Yes For…