KSPA’s ad hoc CTE committee has made an impact on the public’s awareness of the Kansas State Department of Education’s decision to cut journalism funding effective 2012.
Led by Karen Ford of Holton HS, committee members have lobbied state media to write about the decision, and they’ve lobbied KSDE decision-makers to re-visit the 2008 decision to remove Journalism and Broadcasting from the list of Kansas’ funded career and technical education pathways.
Laurie Folsom, the adviser at Lawrence Free State and a member of the KSPA committee, first shed light on the problem with her blog post for the Lawrence Journal-World.
A list of recent stories in the Kansas media underscores the committee’s success thus far:
- The Hutchinson News: “A sobering view: High school journalism classes may lose cash”
- The Kansas City Star: “Kansas altering school journalism funding”
- The Topeka Capital-Journal: “State to cut journalism funds”
- The ESU Bulletin: “State cuts high school journalism funding”
- The Arkansas City Traveler: “State alters funding for high school journalism programs”
A national political website, stateline.org, cited the Capital-Journal story in a story about the KSDE decision.
Please come to the advisers meetings at the Fall Conferences (Sept. 20-22 in Lawrence, Manhattan and Hays) to speak with committee members about their work thus far and the prospects for the future.
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