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Book Review: Cheating Our Kids — How Politics and Greed Ruin Education

By lindsay | October 20th, 2009

No one can accuse Joe Williams of cen­sur­ing a par­tic­u­lar per­son or group of peo­ple for the per­ceived decline in pub­lic edu­ca­tion over the last sev­eral decades.  In Cheating Our Kids:  How Politics and Greed Ruin Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Mr. Williams asserts that there is plenty of blame to go around—from teach­ers’ unions to […]

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KCMSD Facts You Should Know

By lindsay | September 13th, 2009

• The KCMSD spent $15,142 per stu­dent in 2008 while the state aver­age is only $9,338 per stu­dent. (1) • The KCMSD has an annual bud­get of more than $280 mil­lion for only 16,800 stu­dents in 2009. (2) • The aver­age ACT score from stu­dents in the KCMSD is 16.8. (The min­i­mum score required to get into […]

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