Tag: education savings accounts
Survey: Bipartisan majorities in JOCO want education savings accounts
In our current political climate, it seems nearly impossible to get Democrats and Republicans to agree on what day it…
Group claiming to be moderate wants to protect education status quo
Declaring that rural communities in Kansas are threatened by school choice advocates, a group of former legislators have founded Kansans…
Microschools continue to gain traction in Kansas
Microschools, which provide opportunities for enterprising teachers and parents to find alternatives to the public school system, are gaining traction…
Chances for school choice this session narrow substantially
School choice legislation is not yet entirely dead in Kansas this year, although opportunities for passage this session are narrowing.…
Kansas Values Institute doesn’t value honesty
Kansas Values Institute, which says it promotes “traditional Kansas values,” must not think that Kansans value honesty. An email blast…
Kansas Reflector makes false claims on flat tax, ESAs
The Kansas City Star earlier this month deceived readers about education, and now the Kansas Reflector is making false claims…
McClatchy, Iorio collude to keep kids uneducated
One-third of public school students in Kansas cannot read or do math at grade level, and the McClatchy newspapers and…
State school board member Ann Mah chooses systems over students in school choice debate
When school officials talk about education in general or school choice in particular, their focus is almost exclusively on what…
K-12 officials: choice for the system, not for students
“Today we’ve have heard about ways to give kids more choice and what we have received back would be all…
State Treasurer Lynn Rogers deceives taxpayers on ESA programs
State Treasurer Lynn Rogers, a Wichita Democrat, recently took a hard stance against legislation that would expand educational opportunities for…
KS education lobby attacks opportunity – Part 3, KASB
The Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB), the taxpayer-funded lobbying arm of local school boards, this week renewed their opposition…