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Entries Tagged as 'USD 259'

Why teaching is fun

March 25th, 2009

When the Hamilton Middle School teachers had to abruptly leave the building they weren’t allowed to return to retrieve the supplies they had purchased. Bob has a couple of questions.

USD 259 and the end of busing

January 7th, 2009

Kevin Myles looks at the approach the board has taken to equity and diversity in the past year. He finds reason for hope but also reasons for concern.

Compare and contrast

October 29th, 2008

Same subject, different picture.
Crowson in this corner.
An anonymous artist working for Citizens for a Better Education.

This is dangerously close to “Onion” territory

October 28th, 2008

Does the East High auditorium need work? Yep. Lots of it.
Is it a dangerous place that would be shut down? not so much?

Got plans?

October 28th, 2008

Boondoggler asks the same question he did nine months ago and he gets the same answer.

Thus speaks Dave Freeman

October 20th, 2008

A presentation on the need for storm shelters in schools.
Dave doesn’t look right without his sleeves rolled up and breathing heavily over a “developing cell.”

Do-it-yourself school reform

October 17th, 2008

Whatever you think the Wichita schools need, or don’t need, here is something you can do to guarantee their improvement.

Good schools “Flunked”

October 8th, 2008

Tonight (Wednesday Oct. at the Orpheum Theater there will be a free showing of the documentary “Flunked.” It’s the less than an hour long and there will be a question and answer period with the film’s producer, Steve Maggi. There is a free reception at 5pm and the screening begins at 6pm.
Donations of school [...]

Four reasons

September 30th, 2008

boondoggler gives a list of reasons why he is against the upcoming bond issue for USD 259.

More discussion on the USD 259 bond issue

September 10th, 2008

Mark McCormick doesn’t like answers in the form of a question. Bob Weeks responds to Mark’s response.

She Said, He Printed: The USD 259 edition

September 5th, 2008

Mark McCormick recently gave Helen Cochran a chance to make the case for why Citizen’s For Better Education is opposed to the Wichita school bond issue. Bob Weeks gave Ms. Cochran a chance to give her perception of the column, its construction and of Mr. McCormick.

Here you see what one blog can do

September 5th, 2008

The NAACP blog furthers the discussion on the upcoming election to decide a $370 million bond issue. Five questions and the responses to the questions by Lynn Rodgers, president of the USD 259 School Board, and Bob Weeks, opponent of the bond issue and blogger.
Along with the responses to the questions there is also an [...]

more discussion on the USD 259 bond issue

September 3rd, 2008

Bob Weeks responds to Carol Rupe’s letter to the Eagle.

Those against the USD 259 bond issue

September 1st, 2008

Respond to Mark McCormick in his column.

This doesn’t sound good

August 29th, 2008

Close to one school but your district is farther away and across the interstate?

This should be easily answered

August 22nd, 2008

A little transparency would answer a simple question Boondoggler has about air conditioning and the upcoming vote on the USD 259 bond vote.

The ongoing bond debate

August 8th, 2008

The author of Wichita 259 Truth responds to Mark McCormick’s August 3rd column on the school bond issue.