“’I just feel so sad for our state,’ [Rep. Susie] Swanson said, ‘that our system is so upside down that we take talented, qualified, thoughtful people off of important committee because they were told, some of them, ‘You didn’t vote right.’ As for you all in the field of education, that committee now, you have very few friends. I hope in the next election teachers, board members, get out and vote.’

“Deena Horst, a former state representative who now represents north-central Kansas on the Kansas State Board of Education, said she, too, was concerned about the committee assignments.

“’Buckle up,’ she said. ‘If you think you’ve been on a roller coaster now, you’ve going to now see a real roller coaster. The ideas that will come out of committee now will not be good for your students.'”

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