“We would offer that had the Kansas Legislature and governor been interested in honoring the funding levels they established and wrote into law, USD 489 would not be experiencing a fiscal crisis. Responding to a Supreme Court finding they weren’t adequately supporting K-12 public education in 2006, lawmakers had promised to...
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No comments Monthly Archives: March 2014
Kansans beware cookie-cutter legislation from ALEC and others promoting national agenda rather than working for Kansans
“Voters should keep close watch on how the sausage-factory works in their backyards. And legislators like Pilcher-Cook should spend less time on these orchestrated schemes and more time helping to better the lives of Kansans, many of whom need protection from these cookie-cutter carpetbaggers.” Kansas legislators have introduced several ALEC...
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No comments Contact senators to oppose S Sub HB 2141 moving local and school board elections to November and making other changes
We believe the bill to move school board and other local elections is an attempt to politicize them. Party precinct committee members should not choose school board members, they should not be elected in November and take office in the middle of the academic and fiscal year, and there is...
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No comments Leave school board elections alone
We agree. “The problem is that move sounds like the first step of a political dance that begins with moving local elections to the fall, then to the fall in even-numbered years and then as partisan elections. Until city and school district officials clamor for partisan fall elections in even-numbered years,...
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