Hostility resurfaces on Kansas task force about using high school graduation rate to measure success - Butler County Times-Gazette

Hostility resurfaces on Kansas task force about using high school graduation rate to measure success - Butler County Times-Gazette

By Tim CarpenterKansas Reflector Task force chair rejects ‘cowardly’ claim members undermining public education TOPEKA — Sen. Renee Erickson challenged a Kansas State Board of Education member Thursday to identify who he was referring to when criticizing individuals serving on the Legislature’s school finance reform task force. Erickson, a Wichita Republican who chairs the task force, brought a discussion on special education to a halt by insis…

Hostility resurfaces on Kansas task force about using high school graduation rate to measure success

Sen. Renee Erickson, R-Wichita, was unsuccessful in pressuring Kansas State Board of Education member Jim Porter to reveal which members of a Kansas Legislature task force on education that he thought were campaigning to promote the idea K-12 public schools were failing. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)TOPEKA — Sen. Renee Erickson challenged a Kansas State Board of Education member Thursday to identify who he was referring to when criticizing in…