Some suspect nothing the Legislature does on K-12 this session will satisfy the lawyers representing plaintiff districts in the school-finance lawsuit, in particular Wichita attorney Alan Rupe. He had even suggested the House-passed three-year, $633 million plan fell short because of its phase-in. But as House leaders started rethinking that plan after its failed vote in the Senate, Rupe seemed to endorse it in the Lawrence Journal-World: “In terms of how we’re analyzing what is done, the House plan would have been a really good-faith effort that we would’ve evaluated.” That plan also has earned the governor’s praise. The Senate needs to reconsider it — on its own merits, not on how its passage would affect the gubernatorial hopes of Sen. Jim Barnett, R-Emporia.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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USD 259, via their administrative Nazis, keep pushing up the “grades ahead criteria” so as to limit their having to serve gifted kids. It is my understanding that kids now have to demonstrate being 3 grade levels ahead before they will be considered gifted. It does seem a shame that those kids who are two and one-half grade levels ahead are left to langish.
USD 259 is starting to operate much like a managed care agency when it comes to their resources. Of course, one way that they are different from a managed care organization is that they can be sued. The time when that happens is drawing near, I would bet. So the district cost savings on the backs of our most gifted students and future resources (let us not forget), will soon be reversed, I predict.
I know names, email addresses and examples of the most breath-taking unethical behavior that happens here Du Dah on this subject. I try to stay off of my soap box because it raises my BP unnecessarily.
Alan Rupe and the education folks will never be satisfied. Rupe had said at one point several months back that he might consider looking at a phased in plan. This was said after the governor talked about doing it.
When the original bipartisan house plan (supposedly with the Governor on board) was talked about Rupe was against it because he had not gotten a clear signal from the governor that it was the right thing to do.
Then when the house plan was hijacked and sent to the senate Rupe was still saying it was not good enough to just phase in for four years the $600 million plus plan. This by the way is more than the post audit recommended and it does nothing with the rural school districts like post audit recommended. Rupe said all the $600 plus million plan had to be done in one year.
Now that the governor is coming out in support of the plan in the press (which she did not do with the bipartisan house plan that she was supposedly involved in designing) then Rupe started singing a different tune.
It is disturbing to think that our Supreme Court is actually controlled by the governor. Her campaign manager’s husband is one of the judges and another one was involved with the Salina School suing the state before he got appointed to the Supreme Court. If they have become corrupt then we should all be concerned.
It is pretty obvious that they have over stepped their bounds.
DD,
If you have proof you should present it to someone.
OOps, my apologies I posted on the wrong thread — Sorry – I will cut and paste and put it in the right place.
Ruby, I do have proof and it is a matter of time.