Northeast Johnson County parents and pro-public education advocates are featured prominently in two lengthy feature stories out this month about the prolonged legal battle over school funding in Kansas…
“If people think we’re living here for any other reason, they’re confused,” said Trailwood mom Jessica Nance, who has two children at the school. “It’s the schools.”
“Montgomery’s story also quotes Mission Hills resident Judith Deedy, one of the original organizers of the Game On for Kansas Schools group that started at Belinder Elementary. Deedy also factors in prominently to the 30-minute “Revolution in a cornfield” report produced by Life of the Law, which examines the legal principles surrounding the legislature’s conflict with the Supreme Court.
“In that story, Deedy recounts how she at first expected some of the programming that got cut from Shawnee Mission schools to return after the recession, but started to realize the wave of restoration wasn’t coming….”
Read more here: http://pvpost.com/2016/03/28/in-deep-dive-coverage-of-school-finance-debate-nejc-parents-anxieties-at-the-fore-48770.