We’re getting questions about this so we went ahead and posted about it. On February 17th, the House Education Committee did what is called a “gut and go” where they took the contents of HB 2676 and put it into another bill 2292 and passed it without a hearing. The...
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Game On testifies on preliminary funding formula bill
Yesterday Game On testified against a new proposed school funding formula introduced in the House Education Committee. We realize the bill is in its early stages but we have a lot of concerns about it. “Right now as the bill is written, it really hasn’t included any parents, or educators...
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Today KASB’s Scott Rothschild tweeted from the Senate Ways and Means hearing on the A&M efficiency consultant’s education recommendations. We found the following tweets quite enlightening. Superintendents and school board members, if you would care to educate Senators Masterson, Melcher, Fitzgerald, Denning and Arpke on budget issues you face, parents...
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“’I don’t think any districts just want to sit on money. But we’ve been through a period of great uncertainty financially in this state going back to the Great Recession,’ Tallman said. “’School board members by and large tend to be fiscally conservative people. They really do,’ he added. ‘And...
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