By: Charlotte O’Hara, Republican Governor for Kansas, 2026
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Email: charlotte@oharaforkansas.com
What a conundrum we have constructed in educating our children. As we spend more and more dollars, we have more and more failure. Welcome to the federalization and computerization debacle of our schools which are now on life-support. And the reason our schools are close to death is because the adults in the room refuse to acknowledge the failure.
Proof:
The Kansas State Board of “NO” Education lowered the standards in response to the plummeting scores on statewide assessment tests.
Social promotion, in 2024 Kansas graduated 89.5% of our students, according to the Kansas Association of School Boards. This is while 79% of our 10th graders were not proficient in math, according to KSDE 2024 data before the Kansas State Board of “NO” Education lowered standards.
“Over 150,000 Kansas students may be functionally illiterate, yet the adults in charge won’t take action.” The Sentinel headline, July 24, 2025, by Dave Trabert.
My take away, math facts in Common Core boxes obviously are successful in only confusing our children.
Yes indeed, this is a shipwreck caused by the federalization and computerization of education.
Graph from The Sentinel, January 28, 2026 by Dave Trabert
Ok, we’re all aware of the problem, more money hasn’t worked, federal intrusion hasn’t worked, teaching to the test hasn’t worked, computers haven’t worked… it is time to deconstruct the system in order to reconstruct the educational system in Kansas. Yep, time for the wrecking ball!!!
Stop taking all federal money for education and declare our independence!
Close the paper shuffling Kansas Department of Education, a $300 million a year bureaucratic behemoth.
Move all curriculum decisions to the local board level with no state or federal guidelines (they’ve all failed).
Throw out accreditation!!! It has failed so let’s stop rewarding failure.
Throw out statewide assessment tests which have failed and cause teachers to teach to the test and the scores continue to fall. The local boards can decide whether to test or not.
Encourage the use of phonics,
Throw computers out, another educational failure and a costly one... plus if there are no computers there is no digital cabal gathering information on our children.
Remember, education is not enumerated in our Federal Constitution and has been in free-fall since the feds began sticking their noses into the education arena. Federal funding accompanied by federal mandates (oh those strings) make our schools dancing puppets of failure.
The education of our children, foundationally, is the responsibility of parents. The further we move from that truth, the greater disaster our educational system becomes.
Other than that, I have no opinion.
But I do have an opinion on Ty Masterson, now touting President Trump’s endorsement. Ty Masterson Kansas Senate President a data center hugging, Chiefs’ water boy lugging, Panasonic Billion Dollar dealing, as property taxes are stealing while Kansas schools are failing has been endorsed by President Trump for Kansas Governor??? We can and must do better.
As your next governor I will fight for you and our children, not the billionaires who are raiding our state coffers. Together we can and will fix the mess. And yes, sometimes you do need a wrecking ball to get the job done.
God Bless, Keep Your Eyes On Jesus!!!
Charlotte
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Upcoming events:
Friday, June 5th — 7:00 p.m.
Kansas Republican Party Gubernatorial Debate
Johnson County Community College (Yardley Hall)
Overland Park, KS
(Note: The event is sold out and will be live streamed by Channel 4)
Saturday, June 6th — 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Johnson County Republican Party
Old Town Community Center
13420 Oak St.
Lenexa, KS
Saturday, June 13th — Doors open 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Cowley County Patriots Picnic and Forum
Winfield Fairgrounds
1105 W. 9th Avenue
Winfield, KS
Paid for by O’Hara For Kansas, Lisa Huesers Treasurer
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