Tag: Kansas National Education Association
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CAP: Class size reduction not effective
The Center for American Progress releases a report on the ineffectiveness of class size reduction.
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KPERS problems must be confronted
This week the Kansas Legislature may work on the problems facing the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System, or KPERS. Past legislatures have failed to enact reforms necessary to put this system on a sound financial footing, and the legislature has shown itself incapable of managing a system where it’s easy to pass on the problem…
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday March 13, 2011
Today: Wichita city council this week; how attitudes can differ; private property and the price system; toward a free market in education; are lottery tickets like a state-owned casino?; money, banking and the Federal Reserve; Wichita-area legislators to meet public; Pompeo to meet with public; losing the brains race; Teachers unions explained.
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KNEA, the Kansas teachers union, open to reform?
Do the teachers unions in Kansas, particularly Kansas National Education Association (KNEA), have the best interests of schoolchildren as their primary goal?
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Kansas school reform issues
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.
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Kansas legislative forums should be for citizens
Kansas legislative forums are designed for citizen participation, but taxpayer-funded agencies appeared, too.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday December 1, 2010
Today: Education, Kansas National Education Association, Economic development, Tax abatements, Subsidy.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday November 26, 2010
Today: Education, Sam Brownback, Economic development, School choice, Privatization
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Kansas school spending advocates sue; opportunity for reform is overlooked
As Kansas schools sue taxpayers for more funding, important issues of education in Kansas are being overlooked.
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School choice solution to Kansas school funding
In its search to find a solution to the problem of funding its government schools, Kansas is overlooking a sure solution: widespread school choice.
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Economic competition isn’t a sporting contest
Last week USA Today carried an editorial by an Alexandria, Virginia school teacher that contains an unfortunate misunderstanding of the term competition as it applies to economics and education.