The Kansas State Board of Education is at risk of being taken over by extremists. We believe these candidates, including incumbents Chair Melanie Haas and Betty Arnold, will be strong, traditional board members who will ensure Kansas children get the best opportunity for a high quality education....
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General Election Rosters 2024
Game On for Kansas Schools is releasing its rosters for the November 5, 2024 races for the Kansas State Board of Education, Senate, and House. Incumbents who have consistently supported public education while serving in office are on the “Varsity Squad.” Challengers we believe will be the best advocates for public education are on our roster of “Top Recruits,” while incumbents who have repeatedly failed to support public education are “Benched for academic ineligibility.” While national races get a lot more attention, the outcomes of these local elections have tremendous impact on your lives and on our children’s...
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Leave a Comment Senate Action Alert on SB 47 for Wednesday, 2/19
We have another Action Alert for Wednesday, February 19th in the Senate. Contact your Senator and urge them to oppose SB 47, a blatant attempt by a special interest group to change Kansas school board policy in ways that would make it easier to harass school board members, usurp local authority over school board policies and operations and override the will of local citizens by giving minority members the ability to hijack board operations. We submitted testimony which we’ll share below. Some points you may wish to raise with your Senator include: This bill was requested by Mike...
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Leave a Comment CONTACT YOUR SENATOR TODAY AND URGE THEM TO OPPOSE SB 87 ON FINAL ACTION (LIKELY WEDNESDAY 2/19)
The Senate is one step away from passing SB 87, the egregious expansion of the private school voucher tax credit “scholarship” program. The only successful amendment was removing the provision to raise the tax credit from 75% to 100%. The rest of our objections remain. *75% tax credits are tax avoidance, not charity. *This bill is a significant, unjustified expansion of this problematic program— this bill moves even farther away from supporting the original 200,000 free lunch Kansas kids; every next tuition “scholarship” can skip right over free/reduced lunch public school students; this bill lifts the entitlement budget...
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Leave a Comment Despite lofty promises, Louisiana’s private-school vouchers fall short
Vouchers don’t help poor kids-they hurt them, in Louisiana and everywhere else. As Diane Ravitch explains, “Remember the claim that vouchers would ‘save poor kids from failing public schools’? As we see in state after state, it’s not true. Josh Cowen wrote in his new book The Privateers that voucher researchers have known for years that vouchers don’t help poor kids; in reality, vouchers actually hurt poor kids. The poor kids don’t go to elite private schools; they mostly go to religious schools with uncertified teachers. The greatest benefit of vouchers goes to wealthy kids, who use the...
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Leave a Comment Senate Action Alert
Voucher bills are headed to the floor of the Senate this week-contact your Senator and urge them to vote NO on SB 87 and SB 75. SB 87 is an expansion of the current tax credit “scholarship” voucher program that was further expanded in committee by Rep. Adam Thomas who added provisions to increase the current cap from $10 million to $15 million and expanded the overall maximum to $25 million annually. The bill also expands the tax credit to 100% which means “donors” are mere tax evaders, and it’s the rest of us who actually foot the...
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