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Jayhawk Judgment
Read more: Jayhawk JudgmentKansas already spends a shade under $10,000 per student in the public schools — the most in the region and above the national average even though Kansas is a low cost-of-living state. Also ignored by the courts were the volumes of scientific evidence that the link between school spending and educational achievement is close to…
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Gambling for education
Read more: Gambling for educationIn a free society dedicated to personal liberty, people should be able to gamble.
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Report from Topeka, June 22, 2005
Read more: Report from Topeka, June 22, 2005Here’s a report on the special session of the Kansas Legislature from Karl Peterjohn, Executive Director of the Kansas Taxpayers Network. Thanks to Karl for his fine reporting and commentary. Here’s the start of a blog for KTN and any other quality Kansas sites interested in this state’s fiscal crisis thanks to our left-wing, prejudiced…
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How teaching math is politicized in public schools
Read more: How teaching math is politicized in public schoolsThe Wall Street Journal, in an article titled “Ethnomathematics” (June, 20, 2005, available at this link, although registration may be required) tells us of the transformation of mathematics from a universal language and tool for understanding and problem-solving to a “tool to advance social justice.”
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How children lose in the Kansas Legislature’s special session
Read more: How children lose in the Kansas Legislature’s special sessionBecause the conventional wisdom is that smaller class sizes are good for students, the extra money and smaller class sizes will be saluted as a victory for the children. Editorial writers, school administrators, teachers, and those who don’t care to confront facts will thank the Kansas Supreme Court and Kansas Legislature for saving the children.
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Tax Abatements For All
Read more: Tax Abatements For AllRecently I wrote about the Mississippi Beef Plant (The Mississippi Beef Plant Has a Lesson For Us) and its spectacular costs to the taxpayers of Mississippi. I wondered if there were less spectacular failures that we didn’t know about because they weren’t reported in the news media. Failures in this context could mean a situation…
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The cthics case against Justice Donald L. Allegrucci
Read more: The cthics case against Justice Donald L. AllegrucciI have filed an ethics complaint against Kansas Supreme Court Justice Donald L. Allegrucci. This complaint is on the agenda of the July 1, 2005 meeting of the Kansas Commission on Judicial Qualifications.
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Senator Kay O’Connor
Read more: Senator Kay O’ConnorThe Kansas City Star will not correct an inaccurate story regarding Kansas Senator Kay O’Connor.
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Regarding School Finance from Senator Karin Brownlee
Read more: Regarding School Finance from Senator Karin BrownleeWhat is the higher priority? Should the Legislature send $143 million more to schools or preserve the form of government our forefathers carefully designed over two hundred years ago? The separation of powers doctrine is fundamental to maintaining our free society because it maintains a balance of powers with the judiciary unable to control the…
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Corruption in the Public Schools: The Market Is the Answer
Read more: Corruption in the Public Schools: The Market Is the AnswerCorruption in the Public Schools: The Market Is the Answerby Neal McCluskeyClick here to read the article. This is an excellent article that shows how free markets can provide the best education for our children. On the surface, it would seem that having government bureaucrats in charge of educating children would produce good results. For…
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The school productivity crisis
Read more: The school productivity crisisAs the Kansas Legislature prepares to meet to consider school financing, it is a good time to reflect upon the state of our public schools.
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Beneath the Radar
Read more: Beneath the RadarBeneath the Radarby Richard Nadler On June 3, the Supreme Court of Kansas issued a ruling requiring the state legislature to appropriate an additional $853 million per year to Kansas schools, K-12. The basis of the decision, said a unanimous court, was a clause in the Kansas Constitution: “The legislature shall make suitable provision for…