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Urge Speaker Ryckman to urge committee handling of due process bill

Urge Speaker Ryckman to act to protect the legislative process and have the House Education committee vote on the bill to restore teacher due process. Phone: 785 296-2302 Email: ron.ryckman@house.ks.gov Click here for KNEA press release on Rep. Aurand’s handling of the teacher due process bill in the House Education Committee: https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/6a77a658-592b-43fa-aede-34e52bf9ced0 Originally posted on Facebook 2/20/17...
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CONTACT SENATOR NOW AND URGE YES ON VETO OVERRIDE

The House overrode Governor Brownback’s veto of the tax bill 85-40. The Senate will vote today around 3:00. Please contact your senator NOW and tell him or her that you want them to vote YES to override the Governor’s veto. Lookup your Senator’s contact information http://www.ksleglookup.org/...
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ACTION ALERT: URGE GOVERNOR TO SIGN TAX BILL

ACTION ALERT: Urge Governor Brownback to let the tax bill, passed by bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate, become law. This is our best chance at getting out of our current fiscal crisis and providing adequate funding for our schools and other essential state functions. Click here to send an email: https://governor.kansas.gov/serving-kansans/constituent-services/legislation-and-policy-issues/, or call 877-579-6757. PLEASE SHARE! Originally posted on Facebook 2/21/17....
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Homework assignment: thank you letters to legislators voting for tax bill

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Game On team, we are giving you a homework assignment for this weekend. Please send a thank you to your legislators who voted in favor of Sub HB 2178. It is never easy for legislators to vote to raise taxes, but we have seen that the tax cut experiment in Kansas has been a failure, and we have an immediate need to restore fiscal sanity to our state. We need to be able to fund our schools based on what we need rather than what we can afford under unreasonably restrained revenue. This legislature is working...
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