Here’s the latest on the “Opportunity Scholarship” neo-voucher program in North Carolina. “The athletic director of a private religious school that has received the most publicly-funded school vouchers in the state of North Carolina was arrested this week on charges of embezzling from the school nearly $400,000 in public tax dollars, the Fayetteville Observer reports. “Heath Curtis Vandevender is charged with embezzling $388,422 between Jan. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2015, from Truth Outreach Center Inc., located in Fayetteville. Trinity Christian School, which has received nearly $1 million in publicly-funded school vouchers since 2014, is under the Truth Outreach...
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Kansas House passes tax fix (Sub HB 2178)
The House passed a tax plan (Sub HB 2178) that will help Kansas fund its schools 76-48. We support this bill as way to help restore fiscal sanity and appropriate school funding to our state. Please thank those voting yes: Alford, Baker, Ballard, Becker, Bishop, Brim, Campbell, Carlin, Carmichael, Clayton, Concannon, Cox, Crum, Curtis, Deere, Dierks, Dietrich, Elliott, Eplee, Finney, Francis, Frownfelter, Gallagher, Gartner, Helgerson, Henderson, Hibbard, Highberger, Hineman, Holscher, Jennings, Johnson, Judd-Jenkins, Karleskint, Kelly, Kessinger, Koesten, Kuether, Lewis, Lusk, Lusker, Markley, Miller, Murnan, Neighbor, Ohaebosim, Orr, Ousley, Parker, Patton, Phelps, Phillips, Pittman, Proehl, Rafie, Ralph, Rooker, Ruiz, Sawyer,...
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We share the sentiments expressed in this editorial from KNEA. [EDITORIAL] When Tempers Flare “Sometimes, under the dome, people get a tad cheesed off. We know we do! When that happens things can be said that might be regrettable later and much of that is expressed in hyper-partisanship. “Such has been the case over the last couple of days. Things are heating up in the capitol and tempers do flare. “We are counting on a bipartisan coalition of level-headed, common sense Kansas legislators to get Kansas through this current fiscal crisis and put us back on a path...
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ACTION ALERT on SB 188: The Senate will be debating SB 188 tomorrow (2/16/17). Please urge your senator to vote YES and allow Kansas to fund its schools and other essential needs. This bill has bipartisan support, and Game On submitted testimony in favor of this bill on Tuesday. Here’s a summary of what SB 188 does. “A key feature of the budget-balancing package put together by Democrats is the repeal, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2017, of the income tax exemption granted farmers, dentists and other owners of LLCs and other business structures. That business-owner tax was signed...
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