Sharing from our friends at Educate Lawrence. We fully support student engagement on the current issues facing Kansas public education and would be happy to support efforts of youth throughout Kansas (including Johnson County).

“We suggested in November that teens become really interested in voting. But participation in government is more than a trip to the polls in November. Kansas teens and young adults should ask a lot of questions right now as their schools and colleges become increasingly underfunded, their teachers underpaid, their activities curtailed and the funding burden shifted to local governments that aren’t as prosperous as say, Johnson County, where many of the key conservative legislators make their homes and businesses and send their kids to some of the best public schools in the Midwest. Those public servants need to explain how things got this way and no one is in a better position to ask than are teens. As Kyra points out, young people have a lot more power than they think they do when they bring their voices to bear upon something with which they disagree.”

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/feb/03/double-take-students-have-power-influence-those-ch/