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Senate passes education funding bill with troubling provisions

Late Thursday night, the Senate passed its education funding bill with many troubling provisions. It includes a property tax credit of up to $2500 for families homeschooling their children or sending them to private schools, the ALEC corporate tax credit scholarship, elimination of teacher due process and cuts to transportation, at-risk and virtual education funding, among other things. It includes the ability to raise LOBs but results in a net loss of school district general funds of $24.9 million. We oppose further diversion of general funds for education tax credits. We can support those after we fully fund our...
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Kansas mom requests support for schools and children

We love this mom’s blog post/communication to those who are supposed to be representing her in Topeka: “Now is the time to begin to reverse the damage that has been done. Not damage to our schools – no, the damage is done to our children. These children are the individuals who will grow up to be our doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, social workers, representatives, service providers. They will be responsible for paying taxes to support you, for providing vital services you will use, for making policy decisions that will affect your life. Their education is not a financial...
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Eagle editorial urges simple solution to Gannon funding

“Rather than keep it simple in responding to the Kansas Supreme Court’s school-finance ruling, the Legislature seems intent on making matters worse for many districts. Kansans have to hope that as the favored bills go to the full House and Senate on Thursday, reason and fairness will prevail. Both have been scarce so far.”  http://www.kansas.com/2014/04/03/3382232/eagle-editorial-keep-funding-fix.html#storylink=cpy We couldn’t agree more. The bills are a jumble of moving parts right now but what has become utterly clear is that the legislature cannot conceive of just funding the equity fix, and they intend to partially fund it by cutting education funding in...
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