Tag: Blue Valley
Blue Valley dodges questions about taxes ahead of bond issue
School districts routinely ask voters to approve hundreds of millions in new bond issue debt with the promise that it…
Goddard, Wichita, and Blue Valley address learning loss
In the wake of the release of an online calculator by Georgetown University that estimates the number of weeks of…
Big property tax hikes proposed by most officials in Johnson County
As if past property tax increases that far exceed the change in inflation and population aren’t bad enough, most elected…
Freedom to Learn KS PAC doesn’t want parents to learn the truth about achievement
A panel discussion hosted last week by the Freedom to Learn Kansas Political Action Committee serves as another reminder that…
Kansas is #32 in educational racial equality, belying officials’ anti-racism claims
Kansas is the 32nd-worst state in the nation for racial equality, showing once again school officials’ alleged devotion to ending…
Open Enrollment, other education reforms signed into law by governor
Beginning in 2024, open enrollment will permit any Kansas student to transfer schools, based on the receiving school’s capacity, following…
Study: Masks get failing grade in keeping kids in school
A study of the nation’s 500 largest school districts indicates that masking children in school had the opposite effect that…
Open Enrollment bill narrowly approved in House
Kansas K-12 students will be able to transfer and attend any school district in the state, depending on capacity limitations,…
Kansas school calls domestic terrorism a ‘right-wing’ issue
A 9th-Grade history assignment and discussion at Blue Valley West High School in Kansas asked students to explain “What is…
Blue Valley, Olathe: open enrollment brings undesirable students
School officials’ rejection of an open enrollment bill in the Kansas legislature offers a rare glimpse of an elitist attitude…
No documentation for mask order at BVSW in USD 229
An email from Principal Scott Roberts on January 7 informed parents of Blue Valley Southwest (BVSW) students in USD 229…
Blue Valley inflates COVID positivity rate for staff’s benefit
The Blue Valley school administration, notorious for putting the interests of adults ahead of students, has done it again. This…
School newspaper editorial criticizes free speech, religion
An editorial in the Blue Valley Northwest school newspaper recently called for a limitation on religious speech based on –…
2021 state assessment results show continued decline
The new state assessment results from the Kansas Department of Education show achievement continuing to decline, with many more high…
Schools won’t talk about getting 135,000 students to grade level
There were about 135,000 students reading and writing below grade level in Kansas in 2019, with about 17,000 of them…
Blue Valley asks students to declare preferred pronouns
Under the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), teachers in Blue Valley are asking students to declare their preferred…
Survey: public school satisfaction lower than expected
Satisfaction with public schools in some of the state’s largest districts was lower than might be expected pre-COVID, and their…
KSDE denial of critical race theory is just another fairy tale
The rapidly growing backlash against critical race theory yesterday prompted the Kansas Department of Education (KSDE) to deny that CRT…
Blue Valley ransom note to parents: pay up or else
Just when you think education officials’ money worship cannot be more depraved, an elementary school principal sends parents what amounts…
Education officials top the list of nearly 3,000 KPERS ‘millionaires’
The 2020 KPERS pension payment listing shows Kansas has 2,993 KPERS ‘millionaires’ – state and local government retirees who will…
Doctor says there’s no legitimate medical reason to mask children
One Kansas City-area mom had to fight tooth and nail to get a mask exemption for her children, despite having…
Blue Valley board to students and parents: No soup for you!
While watching the Blue Valley school board’s April 8 meeting to rule on parents’ requests for COVID mask accommodations for…
Blue Valley district deprives parents of due process rights
The Blue Valley school district in Johnson County deprived two parents of their due process rights on Tuesday when the…
Johnson Co. helps school districts mislead on quarantine letters
When a Johnson county student is thought to be exposed to someone with COVID, parents get quarantine letters from the…