“Kansas’s long-admired K-12 system is being subjected to a systematic effort to dismantle it and to shift money currently being spent on public schools to private and religious institutions, a group of three legislators told the attendees of a MainStream Coalition forum on eduction on Tuesday.
“With more than 200 people packed into the Colonial Church basement to hear the discussion, Reps. Melissa Rooker, a Republican, and Nancy Lusk and Jarrod Ousley, Democrats, painted a picture of a legislature controlled by anti-tax conservatives who aim to chip away at the school system in hopes of reducing the financial burden K-12 education places on the state’s budget.”