ClydeR
07-10-2016, 09:02 PM
Should we bother to fund primary and secondary education if all the money is going to government schools?
Kansas has for years been the stage for a messy school funding fight that has shaken the Legislature and reached the State Supreme Court. Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, and his political allies threatened to defy the court on education spending and slashed income taxes in their effort to make the state a model of conservatism.
Somewhere along the way, the term “government schools” entered the lexicon in place of references to the public school system.
“Our local grade school is now the government school,” State Senator Forrest Knox wrote in an op-ed article last year, echoing conservative concerns that the government had inserted itself unnecessarily into education.
The intent was obvious to her, Ms. Massman said. “They are trying to rebrand public education,” she said.
More... (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/us/schools-kansas-conservatives.html)
Kansas has for years been the stage for a messy school funding fight that has shaken the Legislature and reached the State Supreme Court. Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, and his political allies threatened to defy the court on education spending and slashed income taxes in their effort to make the state a model of conservatism.
Somewhere along the way, the term “government schools” entered the lexicon in place of references to the public school system.
“Our local grade school is now the government school,” State Senator Forrest Knox wrote in an op-ed article last year, echoing conservative concerns that the government had inserted itself unnecessarily into education.
The intent was obvious to her, Ms. Massman said. “They are trying to rebrand public education,” she said.
More... (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/us/schools-kansas-conservatives.html)