Endorsements

 

Educating All Children in Kansas (E-PAC)

 

Lynn Rogers

President Wichita School Board

Wichita Board of Education District 6

 

Barbara Fuller

Vice-President Wichita School Board

Wichita Board of Education District 3

 

Jeff Davis

Wichita Board of Education District 4

 

Lanora Nolan

Wichita Board of Education District 5

Kevass Harding

Wichita Board of Education At-Large

 

 

An article from TheWichita Eagle (July 25, 2008) on their editorial page:

State Board of Education

District 10

Republican primary

David Dennis, a teacher with Wichita public schools and a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, is the clear choice in the primary race. Dennis is a pragmatic, experienced candidate who wants to boost teacher recruitment and retention. One of his good ideas: Extend mentoring programs for new teachers. He is not interested in revisiting the board's evolution wars, sensibly pointing out that "there is consensus in the scientific community concerning evolution."

Mark A. Evans

Superintendent of Schools for Andover Public Schools

 

Joe McLeland

Kansas Representative for District 94

The Wichita Eagle

The following are The Eagle editorial board's recommendations for Kansas State Board of Education. All the board's endorsements can be read at Kansas.com/opinion. The recommendations reflect the consensus opinion of the editorial board. We offer them as information to consider as you make up your own minds about the candidates.

 

Voters have an excellent candidate in David Dennis , a retired Air Force colonel who helped eliminate nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union and is now the data leader at Wichita North High School and also serves on a Wichita district advisory board and the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission. He would like to work on "ensuring we have a highly qualified teacher in every classroom," even as a third of teachers become eligible to retire; furthering student achievement and preparing kids for 21st-century jobs; and closing the testing gaps between white and minority students. Though proudly conservative on many issues, the Republican supports the current science standards. "I think I'm the person with the education, the background, the experience, the leadership qualities" for the board, he said. We agree.