A group called Restore Kansas wants lawmakers to stop budget cuts and then restore funding to areas cut in recent years. The group formed in December when some guardians of Kansans with intellectual and developmental disabilities decided the state needed a group to pull together individuals and organizations that are...
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No comments Monthly Archives: April 2016
Impeachment bill is threat to judiciary
“The meat of this measure, however, lies in the addition of ‘attempting to usurp the power of the legislative or executive branch of government’ as grounds for impeachment. That provision is a barely veiled warning to Supreme Court justices who have declared the state’s school finance system unconstitutional.” Read more...
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The Senate and House will be debating bills designed to comply with the Gannon equity order tomorrow [March 24]. “The state we’re in right now, there is no additional funding available,” Denning said. Sen. Laura Kelly, a Ways and Means Committee member and a Topeka Democrat, voted against advancing the...
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The bill to require teachers to vote every three years to retain their union passed on emergency final action this afternoon after it was forwarded earlier today. “Sen. Jeff Longbine, R-Emporia, said no teachers or school board members approached lawmakers in committee to say the measure was needed. He expressed...
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