Game On submitted testimony in favor of SB 44 and volunteered to move our oral testimony to next week to allow the committee to accommodate all the proponents. This bill is Governor Kelly’s school funding plan and includes the inflation adjustment the state needs to adopt during the phase-in of the funding. Please email the Senate Select Committee on Education Finance and urge them to pass it: Molly.Baumgardner@senate.ks.gov, Jim.Denning@senate.ks.gov, Anthony.Hensley@senate.ks.gov, Bud.Estes@senate.ks.gov, Dan.Goddard@senate.ks.gov, Dan.Kerschen@senate.ks.gov, Carolyn.McGinn@senate.ks.gov, Pat.Pettey@senate.ks.gov, Eric.Rucker@senate.ks.gov

We agree with the other points in this post by Stand Up Blue Valley regarding the archaic requirement of filing paper copies the day before the hearing. If you can, tune in live today. (Go to www.kslegislature.org and hover on Audio/Video in the top right. Click on Statehouse Live & Archive. A page opens where you can select a date, scroll down to the committee, and listen!)

Image and text below from Stand Up Blue Valley, Facebook, 02/06/2019

Today SUBV will be testifying in support of SB44 in the Senate Select Committee on Education Finance, which has 9 members.
In order to testify, you must submit a copy of your testimony electronically to the committee assistant, the morning before the day of the committee meeting. No problem. You ALSO must submit 30 copies of the testimony on paper by 11:30 the day before the meeting. Thirty. On paper. The day before.
Could this part of the process be an archaic rule from the 20th century that they just need to do away with? Or, is this onerous step of printing and arranging for delivery of 30 copies of testimony a way to discourage citizen participation in the process?
If you want to listen to the testimony today without road-tripping to Topeka, you can! Committee hearings are now livestreamed and archived on audio! Go to www.kslegislature.org and hover on Audio/Video in the top right. Click on Statehouse Live & Archive. A page opens where you can select a date if not today, scroll down to the committee, and listen! (We’ve been listening in on quite a few committees and will be reporting on what we hear.)
It turns out there were so many school districts, advocacy groups and other organizations wishing to testify in support of SB44 that some had to be moved to next week. Only one opponent is listed: Dave Trabert from the dark-money anti-public education, anti-tax organization KPI (Kansas Policy Institute). Trabert volunteered to move his testimony to next week.

Originally posted to Facebook on 02/06/2019.