“Hardy said USD 413 is hurt by the adequacy question remaining unresolved. Districts are seeing increased costs without an increase in money to meet those costs. At the same time, special education is underfunded as well so the local districts are both making up the shortfalls in regular state aid...
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Action Alert – March 11, 2013 – Senate bill to move school board and other local elections to November
Action Alert: Contact Senate Ethics and Elections Committee members and urge them to oppose this bill or at least remove school boards from it. Via amendments yesterday the elections have been shifted to odd years instead of even years, vacancies would be selected jointly by Democratic and Republican precinct members...
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No comments Sen. Lynn’s troubling comments about Gannon and separation of powers
“From a Legislative Branch perspective, it was perhaps not as bad as it could have been because the core issue of ‘suitable’ or ‘adequate’ spending was remanded back to the trial court for utilization of a different formula. . . Looming over it all, however, is still the fundamental disagreement...
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No comments Possible link between moving local elections to November and ALEC agenda to take assault on state government to the local level
We see a link between bills in the Kansas House and Senate to move local elections including school board elections to the fall and a new ALEC agenda to take their assault on state government to the local level. Kansans should not be making it easier for ALEC to manipulate state...
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