Recent Kansas editorials
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The Kansas City Star, Jan. 15
Abortion opponents say Kansas is firmly pro-life. So why are they so intent on dodging the public will?
As the Kansas Legislature restarts last year’s effort to amend the state constitution to allow regulating abortion, amendment supporters again want to have the public vote on it during a low-turnout primary, this time in August 2022.
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It’s that curious insistence on avoiding a big November election turnout that derailed the amendment last year - when four Republican House members objected to the bill largely because of the attempt to sneak it through an August primary in the distracted days of summer.
Whom the gods wish to con, they first make illiterate
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Note: Republished from October 21, 2011 How can this man know letters, having never learned? . . . Can anything good come out of Samaria? The Bible
There are some sentences that should never be completed: America has been good to us, but . . . Thanks for the history lesson, but . . . Public education can be improved, but . . .
Far be it from me to bash teachers, BUT- I am the education Establishment s worst nightmare. I attended a one-room country school and I learned how to read in six weeks worth of kindergarten. I
overheard more American history in first grade than today s teachers hear in 4 years of college! In fact, a poll recently revealed that most seniors in our top-notch universities couldn t identify George Washington as the general of the Revolutionary army. There is a Santa Claus, but there is no father of our country ?
Washington Free Beacon Miguel Cardona / YouTube Screenshot
December 22, 2020 6:08 PM
Joe Biden s likely pick for education secretary helped create a mandated, statewide minority-studies course that analyze[s] how race, power, and privilege influence group access to citizenship, civil rights, and economic power.
Miguel Cardona, the current Connecticut commissioner of education, played a key role in creating the curriculum for Connecticut s required course in African-American, Black, Puerto Rican, and Latino studies. The curriculum supposedly helps students consider the scope of African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino contributions to U.S. history, society, economy, and culture and is rooted in critical race theory, which claims that America is intrinsically racist. As the state s commissioner of education, Cardona oversees all educational programming.
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Joe Biden’s choice to head up the Education Department is the Connecticut commissioner of education who played a key role in developing a statewide minority-studies course that analyzes “how race, power, and privilege influence group access to citizenship, civil rights, and economic power.”
Miguel Cardona based the curriculum on “critical race theory,” which claims America is systemically racist. The choice has pleased left-wing education advocacy groups and teachers’ unions.
Hearing Youth Voices, a left-wing activist group that works to integrate “political education and theory” into public schools, helped develop the curriculum with Cardona. Hearing Youth Voices hosts a slew of diversity training sessions, including one that claims “capitalism is at the root of white supremacy, patriarchy, police brutality, the school-to-prison pipeline and so much more.” Other training courses call for police abolition and refer to Israel as a poli