Elk Konnected Hand out at County Commissioners meeting on 4/25

[Diane Amberg]

MY KIND???   Them's fightin' words twerp!

[redcliffsw]

It fits.  I thought you'd like that. 

[Lookatmeknow!!]

I don't think that is right, teachers teach what they are to teach at each of their level. There are standards and objectives that each child is to be introduced to at each level. I don't know very many teachers who pressure their child to believe one way or the other when it comes to government. You present the facts!

[Patriot]

I don't think that is right, teachers teach what they are to teach at each of their level. There are standards and objectives that each child is to be introduced to at each level. I don't know very many teachers who pressure their child to believe one way or the other when it comes to government. You present the facts!

And the facts being taught are presented in a cirruculum set up by whom?  Oh yeah.... Government.

[Diane Amberg]

You are free to send your kids somewhere else, or keep them at home. I keep telling you folks to start a charter school that suits your particular needs and teaching requirements but I never hear anything but complaints. You do have choices.

[Patriot]

You are free to send your kids somewhere else, or keep them at home. I keep telling you folks to start a charter school that suits your particular needs and teaching requirements but I never hear anything but complaints. You do have choices.

Diane, you obviously have a mis-understanding about Elk County politics, local economics and Kansas charter school law.  Here's some info that might help in at least one of those areas.


Charter School Law
Evaluating Charter School Laws

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has evaluated the charter school laws of various states. It ranks Kansas 36 out of 40 states that have a law. Here's a summary of the evaluation:

    Kansas's charter law was passed in 1994. In 2009-10, there are 34 charter schools serving approximately4,902 students. Kansas law only provides one authorizing option for charter applications. First, the local school board must approve it. Second, the state board of education must approve it.

    While Kansas's law is cap-free and is open to new start-ups, public school conversions, and virtual schools, it needs improvement across the board. Potential starting points include expanding authorizing options, ensuring authorizer accountability, providing adequate authorizer funding, beefing up the law in relation to the model law's four "quality control" components, increasing operational autonomy, and ensuring equitable operational funding and equitable access to capital funding and facilities.

While any index is interesting, the most useful part is looking at the particulars of the index: What was included? What weightings did the authors use? The Alliance looks at a state's charter school law from 20 different perspectives, including what the law has to say about the authorizing process, school autonomy, and the role of charter school authorizers or sponsors. The top ten states (DC is counted as a state for this ranking) are Minnesota, the District of Columbia, California, Georgia, Colorado,  Massachusetts, Utah, New York, Louisiana, and Arizona.
Kansas Law

Under Kansas law, teachers, parents or anyone else seeking authority to operate a charter school must submit a petition to the local school board. If the board approves the petition, it goes to the state board of education. In effect, then, charter schools in Kansas are not truly independent; instead, they are yet another school within a school district. This is a far cry from the autonomy that charter schools have in states such as Arizona and Minnesota.

Full article with statutory info:  http://kansaseducation.wordpress.com/charter-schools/charter-school-law/

Get local school board approval?  Uh huh.

Perhaps others can enlighten you on area school board politica and economics.

[thatsMRSc2u]

uh Diane...that wasnt me although I think 4-h is one of the finer things for kids to be involved in .......although I'm sure to SOME people it's probly double top secret government brain-washin instigated by the "liberal lefties" and has some kind of UNholy agenda attached to it

[thatsMRSc2u]

in fact I bet EKonnected is REALLY behind it...........OMG

[mayflower]

that's so funny, thatsMRSc2u ( I think I got that right!)!!!  Way to go!

[thatsMRSc2u]

LOL! I'll sign out now and go about my business so they can feel free to blast me I notice they ALWAYS wait..............