Pitt State is getting in the game! Way to go! “‘We’re very passionate about this because there are students at this university that have children that are enrolled in K-12. This is why this whole month-long letter-writing campaign has started. Because what else can we do? Try to get ahold of their representatives and get them to do their job. Because it’s very clear that they have not.'” Read more here: http://www.psucollegio.com/news/letters-requested-to-bring-attention-to-school-budgets/article_19b56caa-f1be-11e5-9c80-13b6441e1e6f.html....
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Wichita citizens getting in the game
A group called Restore Kansas wants lawmakers to stop budget cuts and then restore funding to areas cut in recent years. The group formed in December when some guardians of Kansans with intellectual and developmental disabilities decided the state needed a group to pull together individuals and organizations that are negatively affected by budget cuts. The group specifically wants funding restored for what it calls vulnerable Kansans: school-age children, people without access to health care, underemployed and working families, people with disabilities, seniors and people who need mental health services. One theme at the event was to urge...
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Leave a Comment Impeachment bill is threat to judiciary
“The meat of this measure, however, lies in the addition of ‘attempting to usurp the power of the legislative or executive branch of government’ as grounds for impeachment. That provision is a barely veiled warning to Supreme Court justices who have declared the state’s school finance system unconstitutional.” Read more here: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/mar/24/editorial-impeachment-antics/...
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Leave a Comment Senate and House to debate bills to comply with Gannon equity order
The Senate and House will be debating bills designed to comply with the Gannon equity order tomorrow [March 24]. “The state we’re in right now, there is no additional funding available,” Denning said. Sen. Laura Kelly, a Ways and Means Committee member and a Topeka Democrat, voted against advancing the bill. The budget certainty for school districts in the plan is the good news, she said, “but knowing that you don’t have enough coming is the bad news….” “‘All we did was play with the formula to free up a bunch of money,’ she said. ‘We call it...
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