With numbers of students measured in the thousands and the money spent educating them measured in the billions, the only meaningful way to show them on the same graph is to measure the percent change from the prior year. The Number 1 on the X axis is a measurment of the school year ending in 2001 [...]
Archive for December, 2010
The Kansas OOPPS Moment and Five Year Penalty
Posted in Education, Illegal Immigration, Taxation, TEA Party Movement, tagged kansas, school, Senator Vratil, Taxes on December 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What Kansas Illegal Immigration Costs to Education?
Posted in Education, Illegal Immigration, Taxation, TEA Party Movement, tagged George Soros, kansas, school on December 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Over the past few years, Kansas schools have experienced a dramatic increase in the number of non-native speakers of English. In the 2008-2009 school year, there were over 37,000 English Language Learners (ELLs) enrolled in Kansas public schools, grades K-12. This number has increased dramatically since the 1992-1993 school year, which was the first year [...]
There Ain’t No Free Lunch. Wanna Bet? Breakfast Too!
Posted in Education, Illegal Immigration, Kansas, Taxation, TEA Party Movement, tagged George Soros, kansas, school on December 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
NOlathe Observations from this document: All migrant students are provided free meals (breakfast and lunch) automatically. All migrant students are provided a free education to minimize the disruption of being a migrant family. To receive your free meals and education you must register 4 weeks prior to the start of school. If by fault of school [...]
Kansas Education Dollars and ‘The Grapes of Wrath’
Posted in Education, Illegal Immigration, Kansas, Taxation, TEA Party Movement, tagged casino, George Soros, ICLEI, kansas, school on December 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The term migrant worker has different official meanings and connotations in different parts of the world . The United Nations‘ definition is broad, including any people working outside of their home country. The term can also be used to describe someone who migrates within a country, possibly their own, in order to pursue work such as [...]
If One Could Measure Arrogance, You’d Be Vratiled
Posted in Education, Illegal Immigration, Kansas, Kansas State Senate, Overland Park, Rest In Pieces Series, Senator Vratil, Taxation, TEA Party Movement, tagged Johnson County, kansas, Overland Park, Senator Vratil, State Senate, Taxes on December 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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How To Spend $271,573,451 That You Don’t Have.
Posted in Education, Illegal Immigration, Kansas, Kansas State House, Kansas State Senate, Rest In Pieces Series, Senator Vratil, TEA Party Movement, tagged kansas, Rino, school, Senator Vratil, State Senate on December 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Please take a moment to look at this table below before reading our analysis. http://svapp15586.ksde.org/k12/k12.aspx http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en 2001-2002 2009-2010 Increase Kansas Dept. Ed. Total Exp. $3,586,579,119 $5,589,549,135 55.80% Enrolled 446,969 453,324 1.40% Per Pupil $8,024 $12,330 53.60% Bilingual Ed. $14,098,361 $47,417,109 236.33% Hispanic 42,791 71,701 67.50% [...]
Kansas Senator Assignments for 2011
Posted in Kansas, Kansas State Senate, Senator Steve Morris, Senator Vratil, TEA Party Movement, tagged kansas, Rino, Senator Vratil, State Senate on December 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ways and Means: 10:30 a.m.-noon, M-F. Chair, Carolyn McGinn, R-Sedgwick, vice-chair John Vratil, R-Leawood. Members: Jay Emler, R-Lindsborg, Ty Masterson, R-Andover, Dwayne Umbarger, R-Thayer, Vicki Schmidt, R-Topeka, Jean Schodorf, R-Wichita, Mark Taddiken, R-Clifton, Ruth Teichman, R-Stafford, Terrie Huntington, R-Fairway. (Plus 3 Democrats.) Assessment and Tax: 10:30 a.m.-noon, M-F. Chair Les Donovan, R-Wichita, vice-chair Pat Apple, [...]
Making Sum Cents, Olathe School District
Posted in Education, Olathe City Council, Rest In Pieces Series, Senator Vratil, Taxation, TEA Party Movement, tagged Johnson County, kansas, Olathe, Taxes on December 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Several area School Districts recently raised mill levies for increased funding. We chose to look at Olathe USD 233 as the School District is some what contained as the City of Olathe and we then measured changes from years 2000 to 2008. Here is what we found. Estimated Census population increased from 93,880 to 120,094 or 28.8% Full Time [...]
When Times are Tough, The Tough Get Going
Posted in Kansas State Senate, Overland Park, tagged Johnson County, kansas, State Senate, Thomas (Tim) Owens on December 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To: Kansas State Senator Thomas (Tim) C. Owens Tim.Owens@senate.ks.gov CC: Veterans of Foreign Wars jdavis@vfw.org American Legion wsloan@legion.org Reserve Officers’ Association ROApresident@roa.org Association of the United States Army gsullivan@ausa.org Kansas City area media services The Honorable Thomas (Tim) C. Owens, Steve Rose of ‘Sun Publications’ said it best “He [Sen. Tim Owens] also is a highly decorated Vietnam vet. Owens is the [...]
Johnson County and Life After Overland Park
Posted in Home Rule Charter, JoCo Board of Commissioners, Kansas, Overland Park, Rest In Pieces Series, TEA Party Movement, tagged DA Steve Howe, JoCo BOCC, Johnson County, kansas, Overland Park on December 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
What the folks approved and the intent of the Johnson County ‘Home Rule Charter’ states ”to create a County Government to serve our present and future needs, and to permit the people of this County to make changes in our own government” This post will examine just how little authority “the people of this County” actually have [...]
