Also yesterday the House Elections committee approved a bill that would move local elections, including school board elections, to the fall of EVEN years which would put them in the same election cycle as state and federal elections. How much attention do you think your school board elections will receive...
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No comments Monthly Archives: March 2015
Rep. Lunn links court rulings on schools to court funding
Rep. Jerry Lunn “pressed a district court judge Monday on whether a court order to force the state to pay more to schools could lead to funding cuts for the court system.” “The exchange occurred during a hearing on the budget for the Kansas judicial branch.” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/prairie-politics/article14580998.html#...
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Our legislature is refusing to listen to us, accusing us of being misinformed and threatening to change the courts if they dare to uphold the constitution rather than make our children pay the price for tax cuts that aren’t working. “If the courts want to insist on this course of...
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No comments Senate passes block grant bill, repeals current formula
SB 7 (block grant bill repealing the current school funding formula) passed the Senate 25-14. On roll call the vote was: Yea – (25) (Are they representing you?) Abrams, Arpke, Baumgardner, Bruce, Denning, Donovan, Fitzgerald, Holmes, King, Knox, LaTurner, Lynn, Masterson, Melcher, Olson, Ostmeyer, Petersen, Pilcher-Cook, Powell, Pyle, Smith, Tyson,...
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