The House K-12 Education Budget Committee is planning to meet today AT 3:30 (updated time), and they are expected to take action on bills previously heard. Please contact the committee members (emails you can cut and paste are below) and urge them to support the governor’s plan for education funding and for adding the inflation adjustment. This plan is supported by Governor Kelly, the State Board of Education and many education advocates. It presents the clearest path toward ending the cycle of litigation and concluding the Gannon case.

Urge them not to support their own plan (currently HB 2395) which includes a bullying voucher plan, does not include funding beyond 2 years, does not include the inflation adjustment, reduces the commitment to special education funding and risks creating new problems with the constitutionality of the school funding formula and raises the likelihood the Gannon litigation will not be resolved.

Kristey.Williams@house.ks.gov, Kyle.Hoffman@house.ks.gov, Valdenia.Winn@house.ks.gov, Brenda.Dietrich@house.ks.gov, Renee.Erickson@house.ks.gov, Cindy.Holscher@house.ks.gov, Steve.Huebert@house.ks.gov, Brenda.Landwehr@house.ks.gov, Nancy.Lusk@house.ks.gov, Adam.Smith@house.ks.gov, Sean.Tarwater@house.ks.gov, Adam.Thomas@house.ks.gov, Jim.Ward@house.ks.gov

Originally posted to Facebook on 03/21/2019.