There’s a voucher provision built into Sen. Knox’s foster care bill.
“The bill would place sole discretion with participating foster parents to determine the educational placement of foster children in their care. If the parent chose not to send a child to public school, the host parent would receive approximately $7,000 annually to cover the cost of private school, online courses or homeschooling. Families volunteering to be part of the CARE initiative wouldn’t receive other state payments for foster care services.”
Read more here: http://cjonline.com/news/2016-02-15/kansas-senator-makes-case-experimental-foster-care-program-kansas and updated information here http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article61890032.html.
From an article when Knox introduced the same concept last year. “Knox said he hoped to attract families like in the 1950s sitcom ‘Leave It to Beaver.'” http://www.kansas.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/now-consider-this/article9927773.html
Update: Here are the votes on Sen. Knox’s SB 410 creating a special category of foster care providers who are lawfully married couple in a stable relationship, married for at least seven years, don’t use tobacco or have alcoholic beverages in their home, and have at least one spouse who doesn’t work outside the home. The bill also creates a private school/homeschool voucher and allows the foster parents to receive payment equal to the average state aid per pupil if they choose not to enroll their foster children in public school. We oppose vouchers for foster children as we oppose vouchers for children in non-foster families. The bill passed the Senate.
Yea – (24):
Abrams, Arpke, Baumgardner, Bruce, Denning, Donovan, Fitzgerald, Holmes, King, Knox, LaTurner, Love, Lynn, Masterson, Melcher, Ostmeyer, Petersen, Pilcher-Cook, Powell, Pyle, Smith, Tyson, Wagle, Wilborn,
Nay – (15):
Bowers, Faust-Goudeau, Francisco, Haley, Hawk, Hensley, Holland, Kelly, Kerschen, Longbine, McGinn, Olson, Pettey, V. Schmidt, Wolf,
Present but Not Voting – (1):
O’Donnell