DEB GRUVER

Sedgwick County commissioners voted 3-2 Wednesday to support a tax-increment financing district for developer Jay Maxwell’s Southfork project. The city of Wichita already had approved the district, which will capture future taxes to be used to improve 72 acres

DAVE TRABERT

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DAVE TRABERT

Mark,
I just read your comments in The Gardner News story (“Think Tank, education officials debate school testing, funding,” 4-25-12) where you said Kansas Policy Institute was “lying by omission.”
Anytime you would like to join me for a public discussion of these

BILL WILSON

Wichita Metro Chamber Chairman Walter Berry’s letter to the editor supporting the Kansas Policy Institute, written without consultation with the pro-business group’s leadership, has irritated several Chamber members, including the superintendents of two member school

WALTER BERRY

The Eagle editorial board recently wrote an editorial about the conflict between the Kansas State Board of Education and one of its members, Walt Chappell (April 19 Eagle Editorial). It stated that Chappell joined the Kansas Policy Institute “in playing fast and loos

DANEDRI THOMPSON

The Kansas Policy Institute (KPI) isn’t backing off its claims about the ineffectiveness of Kansas public schools. The debate is playing out in newspapers across the state after KPI, a think tank, ran a series of ads that opponents say attack the public edu

DERRICK SONTAG

I found it ironic that The Eagle editorial board labeled the Kansas Policy Institute’s K-12 education newspaper ads as “misleading” when the same editorial stated that state per-pupil base aid had been “slashed” to 1999 levels (“Chappell invited rebuke,” April 1

DIANE WAHTO

The Kansas Policy Institute’s ad in the Sunday Eagle asked us to take the word of the ad’s author against the word of education professionals about student testing. As a teacher of 30 years’ experience, I would trust those people who are on the front lines of educa

EMILY BEHLMANN

The Sedgwick County Commission authorized on Wednesday a $20,000 forgivable loan to Quality Solutions Inc., a Wichita business looking to move into a larger facility in Colwich.

RHONDA HOLMAN

State Board of Education member Walt Chappell invited this week’s rebuke from the majority of his fellow board members by joining the Kansas Policy Institute in playing fast and loose with the truth about student achievement and, worse, by accusing the state’s t