In honor of School Choice Week. In Kansas, we have school choice. We don’t need expansion to multiple charter authorizers that encourages the creation of charter schools that take public tax dollars without adequate protections. Here’s an example from our next door neighbor of what happens all too frequently. “Attorney...
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No comments Monthly Archives: February 2016
Bradford files massive expansion of ALEC tax credit scholarship program
Rep. Bradford has filed a bill to expand the tax credit scholarship program. Among other things, the bill takes away the requirement that students qualify as “at-risk” or attending a Title I focus or priority school, takes away the requirement that students have attended public school the prior year, expands...
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No comments General fund income could be less than expenses for 4th year
Kansans need to remember this reality is part of the context of legislator decisions about school funding. “Next year’s state budget could be the fourth fiscal year in a row with less general fund income than expenses, former state budget director Duane Goossen noted. ‘Each year lawmakers have scrambled to...
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No comments Focus on what Kansas students need
“Let’s cut the political rhetoric and focus on what Kansas students need from their schools and how to pay for it.” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article56152415.html...
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