Toward seamless public education in Kansas

Is it too much to hope that an unusual joint meeting today of the Kansas Board of Regents and the State Board of Education will lead to more cooperation and communication? Maybe, but it shouldn’t be. As Kansas tries to tailor its economy and work force to fit the future, these two policymaking boards need to be working together at every opportunity. Kansans deserve to know their public educational institutions are working seamlessly and efficiently, from preschool through postgraduate programs.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

2 Comments

  1. Kansas
    Posted November 13, 2007 at 4:55 am | Permalink

    Oh, one of those meetings. Let’s see, it will start out reading an agenda of proposed ideas and a panel will be assigned to study the matter.

    Then once the panel members have it, they will give periodic reviews of findings.

    After the findings are head-nodded in the meetings, the reports will be filed.

    Then the final report will be made and those at the meeting still won’t have an idea of what to do or how to fix it. :)

  2. Ben
    Posted November 13, 2007 at 11:20 am | Permalink

    I have to laugh. Way back in 1994 I proposed bringing together the four area Community Colleges (Cowley, Butler, Hutch, Pratt), WSU, and Vo-Tech into a comprehensive post-secondary education/training system. I had seen that in other states such a system became a powerful instrument for economic development.

    Unfortunately that idea is still but a dream.