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Kansans need to support public education supporters

Kansans, including Johnson Countians, need to support candidates who support public education (for real and not just when campaigning). “For now, Republican voters who go to the polls in August have a responsibility to restore some sanity in Kansas. They need to make it much more difficult, even impossible, for Brownback to ram through his destructive agenda before he has to step down in early 2019.” Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article80484967.html#storylink=cpy...
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Tight funding and bad choices

“Tight state funding is prompting some Kansas school districts to make tough choices — choices that, in some cases, they believe are not in the best interests of their students.” http://m.ljworld.com/news/2016/may/31/editorial-school-choices/?templates=mobile&opinion=...
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Ohio shows Kansas should skip charter experiment

Ohio has been a “leader” in the charter school expansion project. We vote to skip that one. “But the straightforward experiment went off the rails when some clever operators figured out how to get rich by sponsoring charter schools. And to keep the gravy flowing, they began making major political contributions to the lawmakers who control the gravy.” http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2016/05/26/1-charter-schools-purpose-forgotten.html?utm_content=buffere8a62&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer...
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Game On predicted funding cuts in May of 2012

Scrolling through our old posts on our Facebook page, we found this from May 10, 2012: “Yesterday the House hijacked the political process and sent a tax bill to the governor’s desk the Senate did not intend to be its final say on the matter. The parties will return to the table, but the threat of unmanageable tax cuts and corresponding funding cuts loom large immediately after the legislature looked poised to pass between $50 and $75 million in increased funding for education. Remember this in August and November.”...
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