Senator Forrest Knox of Altoona has a new bill on a proposed foster care system, which includes a payment for foster families who homeschool or send the children to private school and would take that money out of the state general fund. What does that say about Sen. Knox thinks about public schools? The bill is set for hearing tomorrow.

“The bill also sets up a state education fund to reimburse foster care parents who choose to educate their children outside of the local school district, either in a home school or private school setting. The families would receive the amount of average state aid per student for each of the children being educated outside the public school system.

“Mark Tallman, spokesman for the Kansas Association of School Boards, said that this would be ‘providing funding with no accountability as to what the academic results would be’ and questioned the rationale for doing when the state is looking to reduce education spending.”

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