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“Both Reeser and Hoheisel are critical of the state’s finances under Gov. Sam Brownback. “’You get the feeling that people really want to start returning to our traditional Kansas moderate viewpoints and that includes strong schools and balancing the budget,’ Reeser said Monday. ‘If we want to reverse the extremist policies of Gov. Brownback then you have to take out these ‘yes’ men and these ‘yes’ women who are currently holding Statehouse seats.’” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/election/article69939372.html....

Rep. Highland is supporting another ALEC neo-voucher, “Education Spending Accounts” in a new funding formula. “A proposed new Kansas school funding formula would allow parents to use tax funds for private schools, and it would prohibit school districts from spending state aid money on extracurricular activities… Under the bill, parents could use 70 percent of the per-pupil state aid that would have gone to their local school district to instead pay for private schools, including religious schools or home schools. Such accounts would be administered by the state treasurer… “Rep. Ron Highland, a Wamego Republican and chairman of...