UPDATE: After this alert was issued, HB 2457 was passed over, and the House did not debate it or vote on it. It is still alive as of March 20, 2016. ***PTA ACTION ALERT*** Send an email or leave a voice mail message ASAP! The bill is on General Orders...
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No comments Monthly Archives: March 2016
Hinson: no certainty schools will open next year
“Now state legislators, grappling with a $30 million deficit in the state budget, must find a way to constitutionally fund schools by the end of June or come July 1, there will be no mechanism to pay for K-12 education in Kansas. “And the closer schools get to that deadline,...
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No comments Life of the Law covers intersection of Kansas courts and school funding
Good coverage of the current school funding situation and its intersection with attacks on the courts. “Kansas state legislators are locked in a balance-of-power fight with justices on the Kansas Supreme Court over how much of the state’s diminishing tax revenue to spend on educating children. “Life of the Law’s...
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No comments Game On talks school funding and 2016 Walk on KKFI
Thank you to KKFI for inviting us to talk about school funding and our upcoming walk. Game On’s segment is the first part of the podcast. http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/womens-history-month-2/...
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