You can watch edited video from the education forum we co-sponsored with Mainstream Coalition and Kansas PTA on February 17th featuring Rep. Lusk, Rep. Bollier, Rep. Rooker, and State Board of Education member Janet Waugh. http://www.mainstreamcoalition.org/public_education_in_crisis_watch_now...
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No comments Monthly Archives: March 2015
Goossen on sacking the education formula
“Not only that. The governor wants to sack the state’s school finance formula in favor of a ‘block grant’ to schools, which would make that $127 million cut permanent and shut off any future funding increases for schools from the state. “Why would he propose this? How does this help...
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Thank you Emporia Board of Education member Brent Windsor for speaking up. “Two weeks ago, the Governor announced that he would reduce K-12 and higher education budgets by $44.5 million. This goes directly against the promise he made during his re-election campaign that he would not reduce funding to education....
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Here’s followup on the letter we posted earlier this week. Bravo, Haeli Maas. The junior at Smoky Valley High School in Lindsborg in the heart of Kansas has penned an eloquent letter to Gov. Sam Brownback. The letter is on the verge of going viral with defenders of K-12 schools...
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