Ask our Kansas Senators Marshall and Moran to sign on to this letter calling for the release of already-appropriated education funds. (Contact information at bottom of post.) Districts received notice that the funds were being withheld just one day from the disbursement date. “Republican members of the U.S. Senate called...
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Sen. Gossage meeting with ALEC
ALEC is meeting in Indianapolis. Do you know where your legislators are? Sen. Gossage is on the Education Funding Task Force, and she is certainly not representing the vast majority of her constituents gathering bad policy ideas from an anti-public education bill mill and rubbing elbows with Education Secretary Linda...
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ICYMI. This is unacceptable. “The U.S. Department of Education told states on Monday afternoon that it would not deliver nearly $7 billion from seven K-12 education programs on July 1, as federal law requires. “Five of the programs are formula funding streams that support K-12 school districts, as well as...
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No comments State education board seeks to restore school security grants
Towards the end of this year’s session, the legislature rejected the State Board of Education request to continue to provide funding for security grants and instead gave the Attorney General’s office money to be used for video gun detection program no districts requested. The SBOE is now requesting the legislature...
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