Rep. Highland is supporting another ALEC neo-voucher, “Education Spending Accounts” in a new funding formula.

“A proposed new Kansas school funding formula would allow parents to use tax funds for private schools, and it would prohibit school districts from spending state aid money on extracurricular activities…
Under the bill, parents could use 70 percent of the per-pupil state aid that would have gone to their local school district to instead pay for private schools, including religious schools or home schools. Such accounts would be administered by the state treasurer…

“Rep. Ron Highland, a Wamego Republican and chairman of the House Education Committee, said the education spending accounts would give parents choices.

“’It’s taxpayers’ money, and they should have a say in how it’s spent,’ he said.”

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article69938197.html.