Good news from Kansas yesterday.
In the Republican primaries, several courageous moderate Republicans defeated far-right elected officials.
One of the major issues that helped the moderates was school funding.
Kansans are not ready to abandon public schools for the sake of Governor Brownback’s tax cuts.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Hard to know what a moderate Republican is these days. The good news is that the proposed cuts were rejected.
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Moderate Republicans look an awful lot like Establishment Democrats.
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“Testifying before the Senate Education Committee, district leaders argued that the vagueness of the state’s charter school law and regulations fostered inequalities and a lack of accountability. They complained that charter schools aren’t required to publish financial reports and contact information for board members, many of whom live distant from the school they serve. They said that charter schools can suspend and expel students without an appeals process required of district schools, and many enroll fewer proportions of English learners and disabled students, who are more expensive to educate.”
I’m so glad that public school leaders themselves are acting as advocates, since their elected officials have utterly failed to do their jobs.
For me it raises a question about why I’m paying all these public employees if they refuse to act as advocates for the public schools and instead work full time on promoting charters.
If we have to do their jobs, why pay them? I know they prefer non-public systems. However. They are paid to put regulations in and enforce them.
https://edsource.org/2016/much-criticism-no-consensus-on-how-to-fix-charter-school-oversight/567805
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Ah, to wake up one day and see KANSAS turning blue around the edges…
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