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ACTION ALERT: Contact your Senator today [March 23] and urge him or her to vote No on SB 469. Sharing from KNEA: The Senate has decided to debate and vote on SB 469 today. It is the second bill on their debate calendar. This bill by anti-teacher zealots Jeff Melcher and Julie Lynn has been crafted specifically to end teacher representation in Kansas. It is intended to ensure that no teachers in Kansas will have representation in collective bargaining. The bill requires every teachers association to stand for re-election every three years even if no other organization submits...

The bill to repeal the Kansas College and Career Ready Standards failed to pass after 3 hours of debate: 44-78. On roll call the vote was: Yea – (44): Are they representing you? Barton, Bradford, Bruchman, B. Carpenter, Claeys, Corbet, E. Davis, DeGraaf, Dove, Esau, Garber, Grosserode, Hedke, Hemsley, Highland, Hildabrand, Hoffman, Houser, Huebert, Hutchins, D. Jones, K. Jones, Kahrs, Kelley, Kiegerl, Lunn, Macheers, Mast, McPherson, Merrick, O’Brien, Osterman, Pauls, Peck, R. Powell, Read, Rhoades, Rubin, Ryckman, Scapa, Sutton, Vickrey, Weber, Whitmer, Nay – (78): Please thank them. Alcala, Alford, Anthimides, Ballard, Barker, Becker, Billinger, Boldra, Bollier, Burroughs,...

The Senate has passed the judicial impeachment bill allowing the legislature to impeach Supreme Court justices for “attempting to subvert fundamental laws and introduce arbitrary power’ and ‘attempting to usurp the power of the legislative or executive branch of government” among other grounds. Please note that some legislators have claimed that the courts have usurped the legislature’s power of appropriation by ruling they need to increase school funding. It was a close vote 21-19. The bill will proceed to the House. On roll call the vote was: Yea – (21) Are they representing you? Abrams, Arpke, Baumgardner, Bruce,...