In the 2014 legislative session, some legislators will continue to fight against better funding for our schools and for vouchers and expansion of charters and other harmful education policy that PARENTS DON’T SUPPORT. Time to make your voices heard, parents. Those people in Topeka are your REPRESENTATIVES-make sure they are...
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No comments Monthly Archives: September 2013
ALEC cashing in on kids and promoting a private, for-profit education model
Please read and share this article. See the list of bills at the bottom, and several of them will look familiar to those who followed the 2013 legislative session. These are not Kansas bills, and they will not benefit Kansas public school students. Cashing In On Kids:139 ALEC Bills in...
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No comments Billion dollar shortfall for schools in 2-year budget
“’It’s time to ask (lawmakers) to fund the law and the statutes that the legislators made themselves,’ said board member Sally Cauble, who made the motion.” Voting against the motion were 2 JoCo Board representatives, Steve Roberts, Overland Park, and John Bacon, Olathe, as well as Ken Willard of Hutchinson....
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No comments Brownback’s judicial power grab is directly related to school funding
Now Governor Brownback can ask potential appellate court judges their views on the court’s role in school funding, appoint those who will rule that only the legislature can determine what suitable funding means under the Kansas Constitution and keep us from knowing who else was passed over. Kansans beware-the bill to...
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