Voucher Bills Moving Through KS Legislature CONTACT SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF TAX CREDIT SCHOLARSHIPS. SB61 and HB2068 are identical bills that have passed out of committee and could be heard on the floor at any time. Contact your Senator and your Representative and urge them to vote...
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No comments Monthly Archives: February 2021
Yet Another Article on Why Vouchers are a Bad Idea
Some ask why we oppose expansions of Kansas tax credit scholarships and other voucher/neo-voucher bills. Among the reasons is that we have been watching other states for over a decade and once these programs start they get expanded again and again, taking money from public schools despite the data showing...
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No comments How Iowa Pushes Back on Vouchers
Some Iowans have found a clever way to illustrate the fact that Iowa voucher bills don’t include academic standards for schools getting voucher funds. The Kansas tax credit scholarships and the bills to expand them lack standards and accountability provisions and HB 2119 to be heard next week in the...
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No comments The View on Vouchers from Iowa
Iowa and Kansas are facing a major push to send tax dollars to private schools without imposing standards on those schools. Read one Iowa mom’s perspective. “I cannot stand by and be silent when it is proposed that tax dollars be taken away from my son’s only choice in education...
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