PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Game On Hopes Walk is a Game Changer for State Legislature Local Mom Makes Second Walk from Merriam to Topeka, Others Join Merriam, Kan. – Last year the group Game On for Kansas Schools made headlines when member and local mom, Heather Ousley,...
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No comments Monthly Archives: March 2014
Heather’s walking to Topeka March 28-31
Heather’s walking to Topeka March 28-31! Many of you first met us last March when Game On member Heather Ousley walked the 60 miles from Kansas City to Topeka to voice opposition to the policies and priorities of many in our legislature. This session we have seen continued underfunding of...
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No comments New House appropriations bill still not public, believed to contain toxic education policy and some changes to charter law
“Republican leaders in the Kansas House on Friday said they didn’t intend to include an expansion of charter schools as part of a school funding bill intended to address the Supreme Court’s ruling on school finance. And while they said they intend to introduce a new bill without the charter school...
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No comments Merrick now says appropriations bill was not supposed to include broad changes to charter law and new bill is being drafted
Now Speaker Merrick is saying the appropriations bill was not supposed to contain the charter provisions, and a new appropriations bill is being drafted. See http://www.kansas.com/2014/03/21/3358868/house-speaker-wont-allow-charter.html But that seems inconsistent with what he said in this morning’s edition of the Wichita Eagle: “’If we’re going to spend that money, we’ve got...
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