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Contact your Senator NOW as this bill heads to the Senate later today. The House has narrowly passed the Conference Committee Report for House Sub SB 387 65-58 (63 votes are required to pass). We oppose this bundling of funding and policy and we oppose this bill’s counting of LOCAL LOB money as STATE aid to pretend the state is funding 92% of excess costs as mandated in law. It also abolishes the SPED funding task force and mandates districts spend LOB funds derived from SPED funding contrary to legislative intent. This bill codifies the continued underfunding of...

UPDATE April 4, 2024 1:00 pm: SB 387 has narrowly passed the House 65-58. Contact your Senator and urge a NO vote TODAY. We join the Kansas Association of School Boards, USA-Kansas (the state superintendents association), the Kansas State Board of Education, the Kansas Association of Special Education Administrators and KNEA in opposing SB 387 as agreed to in conference earlier today (Wednesday, April 3). Please contact your legislators and urge them to reject SB 387 and support a clean bill with true state-funded special education increases and full Gannon funding. Their statement follows. “This bill does not...