We share Mr. Wempe’s apparent frustration that Kansans support public education but continue to elect too many legislators who don’t. We elected a pro-public education governor but our legislature moved slightly backwards. There is more work to do in this session and in the next election. Stay vigilant, Kansas. “Yet...
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Bullying vouchers a bad idea
“The real purpose of the school bill is evident. It isn’t designed just to protect victims of bullying; instead, it’s intended to introduce the idea of public vouchers for private- and parochial-school tuition costs. “Vouchers are a bad idea. They divert money from public schools, making it harder to educate...
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As the House K-12 Education Budget Committee attempts to include a bullying voucher in its school funding bill, we take a look at the tax credit scholarship voucher-in-disguise program already in existence. It appears largely to be the Kansas Subsidizing Religious Education program. The top Scholarship Granting Organizations are the...
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No comments Think tank proponents testifying, but not Kansans
This could generally be said about bills and policies not supporting Kansas public education in the Kansas legislature this year. “‘I don’t see a Kansas version of Janus sitting here before us today telling us why we need to change the laws,’ Holland said. ‘I see a number of conservative...
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