“Senate Republicans rallied around Salina Sen. Tom Arpke’s strategy to cut $5.3 million in aid from universities supervised by the Kansas Board of Regents, including Kansas State University and The University of Kansas, and award that money to independent colleges operating in the state…
“[Sen. Vicki] Schmidt said the Senate position on college financial aid reflected Arpke’s dislike of public education.
“’It’s just spite,’ Schmidt said. ‘The loser in this are the students.’”
Read more here: http://cjonline.com/news/state/2015-03-28/senate-picks-winners-losers-among-kansas-college-students
From KNEA: Senator Vicki Schmidt (R-Topeka) offered an amendment on the Senate floor to remove this provision. The amendment failed on a vote of 15 to 23.
Want to know who supports spending 83% of state scholarship dollars on private college students? Here’s the vote on the Schmidt amendment:
Yea: Bowers, Faust-Goudeau, Francisco, Haley, Hawk, Hensley, Holland, Kelly, Kerschen, King, Longbine, McGinn, Ostmeyer, Pettey, Schmidt
Nay: Abrams, Arpke, Baumgardner, Bruce, Denning, Donovan, Fitzgerald, Holmes, Knox, Love, Lynn, Masterson, Melcher, O’Donnell, Olson, Petersen, Pilcher-Cook, Powell, Pyle, Smith, Tyson, Wagle, Wilborn
Present but not voting: La Turner, Wolf