Tag: Wichita and Kansas schools
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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…
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Still more Kansas National Education Association candidate questions
The “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 School Bond: Information Request
In support of the proposed Wichita school bond issue, USD 259 officials and their supporting campaign group make a lot of claims. Unfortunately, Wichita news outlets, for whatever reason, don’t spend a lot of time investigating these claims. It’s left to citizens to make inquiries. So I do. Here’s one sent to Wendy Johnson, Division…
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Wichita School Bond: Was Safety Important in 2000 at College Hill Elementary?
Today, three College Hill Elementary School staff members (Casey McConnell, Kathleen Endsley, and Jacqueline Henning) write to the Wichita Eagle with this complaint about their school, and a question too: But like many schools in the district, it does not have a safe room for use in a tornado warning. … It has been stated…
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Wichita School Bond Man-on-the-Street Video
At the Wichita School Bond channel on YouTube, there are some new man-on-the-street video interviews available.
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Do We Know if Enrollment Numbers Support Wichita School Bond Issue?
Writing in the Wichita Eagle Editorial Blog, Phillip Brownlee writes “Some opponents of the USD 259 bond issue have argued that the district shouldn?t need more classroom space because its enrollment has been fairly flat since the 2000 bond issue.” He then goes on to make the case for the district needing more schools and…
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Wichita School Bond Not Alone in Kansas
Besides the proposed school bond issue in Wichita, several other communities are planning elections for their own bond issues. In Girard, a proposed school bond issue of $24.4 million would have 47% paid for by the state of Kansas (Board sets scope of proposed bond issue). In Baldwin City, a $22.9 million bond issue will…
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Another Wichita School Bond Cartoon
Helen Cochran of Citizens For Better Education has released another cartoon about the Wichita school bond issue. Click here to view this commentary about Wichita’s taxpayer check list.