Tag: Wichita and Kansas schools
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KSN News Reports on Wichita School Bond
KSN News reports on the Wichita school bond issue. I’m in the story. Click here for the news story. Click here for the Wichita school bond channel on YouTube. I wonder: Do people pass out bottled water with custom printed stickers urging people to register and vote out of a sense of civic duty, or…
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First Wichita School Bond Advertisement
Wichitans for Effective Education has released the first in a series of Wichita school bond issue advertisements. More will follow. Visit the Wichita School Bond Channel at YouTube for more videos.
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At Wichita Chisholm Trail Elementary School, Why is Increased Enrollment a Problem?
Today’s Wichita Eagle reports Wichita area schools’ enrollment increases. Featured in this story is Chisholm Trail Elementary School, which added 112 students. The enrollment there is now 576. Interim superintendent Martin Libhart and other officials held a press conference there, presumably to emphasize the plight of this school. Someone has already mentioned to me today…
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Charter Schools Are Mostly Okay Despite Misconceptions
A recent Wichita Eagle Editorial Blog post mentioned charter schools in Arizona. A comment writer wrote “Arizona found out, ‘Charter schools tend to be fly by night’ schools operated by entrepreneurs looking for new profit centers at the giant expense of the public school system.”
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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
USD 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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School Choice Resource Center Now Open
I’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
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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Another Wichita School Bond Issue Cartoon
Helen 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
Friday 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!
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…