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• Kansas news digest

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 428
  News from alternative media around Kansas for December 21, 2009. KNEA uses incomplete funding data to argue for tax hikes (Kansas Liberty) “Kansas State Department of Education Deputy Commissioner says a common practice of legislators and school advocates is only citing the base state aid K-12 receives for ...
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• Bilingual Education: A Liberal Social Experiment That Hurt Hispanic Kids

  
  Marquette Warrior — Authority: 119
  From Heather McDonald, writing in the City Journal , a deconstruction of the corrupt push for bilingual education , which was often imposed on Hispanic kids whose parents didn’t want it. On the face of it, it’s pretty obvious that if you want a kid to learn a language, you immerse them in it. That , after ...
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• Teachers’ Unions Are Washington’s Fat Cats

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  We know how liberals, particularly those in the education establishment, like to say that Corporate America dictates public policy through campaign contributions. A new report , prepared by the Center for Responsive Politics and the National Institute on Money in State Politics, does a good job of dispelling that ...
  6 days ago

• KNEA uses incomplete funding data to argue for tax hikes

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 428
  In a story illustrated with several charts, Kansas Liberty shows that the Kansas National Education Association or ( KNEA , the teachers union), is not to be trusted when talking about Kansas school finance. Why? School spending advocates claim that spending on schools in Kansas is declining rapidly. It’s ...
  1 week ago

• School districts are not legally compelled to diminish Christmas

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  Ronald L. Caravan writing in The Valley News : "One organization that is postured perfectly to help [school administrators ward off legal threats over Christmas] this is the Alliance Defense Fund, a not-for-profit legal alliance of over 1,300 attorneys and allied organizations nationwide whose mission includes ...
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• Ominous Omnibus: Spending Bill Jeopardizes Opportunity Scholarships

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 732
  Yesterday, members of Congress released the text of their $446.8 billion spending measure – the Omnibus Appropriations bill – which will likely be enacted before December 18. To the dismay of low-income parents in the District of Columbia, the omnibus also contains language seriously jeopardizing the D.C. ...
  2 weeks ago

• What would YOU say to the NEA?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 576
  I have been invited to speak to the Board of Directors of the National Education Association (NEA), our nations largest teacher union, about disruptive innovation . Im scheduled for the morning of Saturday, December 12. I only have 20 minutes, plus another 10 minutes for questions and discussion. If you were in my ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kunzman on Regulating Homeschooling

  
  Homeschooling Research Notes — Authority: 403
  This post reviews Robert Kunzman, “Understanding Homeschooling: A Better Approach to Regulation” in Theory and Research in Education 7, no. 3 (November 2009): 311-330 Kunzman, well known on this blog as the author of the excellent study Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kansas school spending advocates: no alternative views welcome

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 428
  On Monday and Tuesday, the Kansas House Appropriations Committee held hearings, and big topics were Kansas school funding and the Kansas budget. The reaction by school spending advocates to two speakers is illustrative of the highly divisive nature of public school operation and funding in Kansas. We need to label ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Influence of the NEA

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 138
  As described by their outgoing General Counsel Bob Chanin at the NEA 2009 conference: Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas. It is not because of the merit of our positions. It is not because we care about children and it is not because we have a vision of ...
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• We’re All Right-Wing Bastards Now (Please pardon the old NEA’s top lawyers French)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  We’re All Right-Wing Bastards Now—that is, if the NEA’s logic is to be believed. 20 November 2009 On the last day of the National Education Association’s convention this summer, its outgoing general counsel, Bob Chanin, gave a speech for the ages. After sharing fond recollections of his 41 years as the NEA’s top ...
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