“A truce in the education wars isn’t likely any time soon. Kansas is still cash-strapped, a number of lawmakers are innately hostile toward public education, and legal arguments in the long-running school funding case are scheduled for November. “But Brownback does his state no service by picking fights with school...
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No comments Monthly Archives: September 2015
Retention votes likely new form of attack on judiciary
Kansas education advocates are also going to need to be court advocates. The courts are being attacked by legislation and now face the threat of organized campaigns against retention of justices who do not rule as the governor would like them to. “The president of the Kansas Bar Association calls...
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No comments Block grants bad recipe
We’ve seen a lot of misinformation on the block grants and operational funding. Please read and re-read this post and then share it. “Over a 5-year period that’s an increase of $257 million, but what does that increase pay for? “The numbers from the Comparison Report show that aid went...
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No comments Generosity not so extraordinary
“However, the real joke is on public schools in the state. Whether they realized it not, each of them contributed to this $12.3 million fund… “Lawmakers weren’t forthcoming that extraordinary funding was actually being deducted (or stolen, you use your own description) from state aid that districts were supposed to...
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