More postcards are coming. Help your friends and neighbors understand the reality behind them.

“What the billboard and mailers don’t explain is that the lawmakers favored the increased funding. However, they ended up voting against that particular bill because it also eliminated state-mandated due-process rights for teachers and granted tax credits for business donations to private schools. Those policy changes were tacked onto the bill late in the legislative process – at the urging of groups such as AFP. . .Still, the billboards and mailers are a tacit, albeit incredibly cynical, acknowledgment by the chamber PAC and AFP that Kansans care about public education. Voters should follow the groups’ urging and back candidates who support more funding for public schools.
“(Hint: They are usually the candidates that AFP and the chamber PAC are attacking.)”

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