Our children have become a “pay-for”. Duane Goossen, Senior Fellow at the Kansas Center for Economic Growth and former Kansas Budget Director, explains it here. “The income tax cuts have also been paid for by cutting back state services. The most prominent example is the switch of school aid to...
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No comments Monthly Archives: July 2015
Dr. Berry explains Olathe cuts
Please read this. Similar dilemmas are being faced across Kansas. The time for sitting on the sidelines is long over. From Amy Martin, Olathe School Board, introducing and then quoting a letter from Olathe Superintendent Marlin Berry: Real people, people who have been valued members of our team and live...
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Our friends at Johnson County Educators nailed this one. Quoting them, “Olathe representative Ron Ryckman was the co-author of the block grant school funding bill. [Thursday night] the Olathe school district announced deep budget cuts necessitated by the actual decreased funding of the block grants. We’re sharing this news story...
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This is not acceptable. Kansas, are you fed up yet? “The [Olathe school] board, three of whom were just elected, got the news that the district has a $2 million deficit and up to 80 layoffs may be needed to close the gap…The district is proposing to leave a handful...
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