Voters in Crawford, Labette, Sedgwick and Thomas Counties, you have primary elections for your school boards! Please be an informed voter TODAY (Tuesday, August 5th)! If you are a Game On follower and would like to share information about candidates in these races feel free to comment on this post. (Please refrain from sharing about general election information or non-school board races and remember we are a non-partisan organization and these are nonpartisan races). Here’s a list of primary races: *Crawford County-USD 247 Position 5 *Labette County-USD 506 Seats 5 and 6 *Sedgwick County-USD 259 Districts 1 and...
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Vouchers redistribute wealth upwards
Jennifer Berkshire summarizes the harsh impacts of the latest federal actions affecting public education and reminds her readers that Kansas provided lessons on what happens when citizens realize their public schools are under attack. We’ve reclaimed our kids’ education before, and we can do it again, but it takes all of us. “This is also the story of the federal school voucher program that has now been foisted upon us. While the final version was an improvement over the egregious tax-shelter-for-wealthy-donors that the school choice lobby wanted, the logic remains the same, as Citizen Stewart pointedly points out:...
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Leave a Comment More voucher scams in Florida
Vouchers are a scam in Florida (and everywhere else). We don’t want them in Kansas. Here’s more information from a former local school board member in Florida. “When Florida went to a universal voucher system in 2023, extending eligibility for vouchers worth $8,000 to $35,000 a year to all, without restrictions, 122,895 new students signed up. Only 13 percent had been in public schools. 69 percent were already in private schools. Another 18 percent were brand-new kindergarteners. “These are not families disgruntled with the public school system. The state’s voucher system is subsidizing choices families were already making,...
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The funds should not have been withheld in the first place, but we are relieved they’re now being released. “President Donald Trump’s administration announced Friday it was releasing billions of dollars in school grants, including about $43 million that had been withheld in Kansas… “The Trump administration had come under increasing pressure to release the money. A couple of lawsuits challenged the freeze and members of Congress from both parties urged the administration to release the money. A coalition of 14 school districts, parents, teachers unions and nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit challenging the decision to withholding the...
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