It was voucher-palooza in the Kansas legislature today. The Senate passed the tax credit scholarship, and the House K-12 Education Budget Committee passed the massive Education Savings Account bill. They improved it slightly by removing homeschools from participation and by requiring students to be current public school students rather than those already attending private schools. But the bill is still a neo-voucher and has no cap and does nothing to impose standards on the private schools receiving the funds.

Representatives Byers, Hoye, Ousley and Winn opposed the bill and had their votes recorded.

Representatives Williams, Estes, Hoffman, Jacobs (substituting for Huebert), Johnson, Landwehr, Penn, Tarwater, and Thomas did not.

Originally posted to Facebook 2/11/2021.