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“But those issues aren’t priorities for Brownback, Wagle and their cohorts. They blindly takes cues from the Kansas Chamber and Kansas Policy Institute, which push American Legislative Exchange Council-crafted policies designed to benefit Koch Industries and other large corporations intent on rewriting rules of government to suit their interests. “Privatized education is among their top policy goals, but ALEC followers also waste time on [other] senseless pursuits…Kansans shouldn’t tolerate a far-right, ideology-driven faction dismissing the state’s strong tradition of support for K-12 public schools.” http://www.gctelegram.com/opinion/lax-effort-kansans-deserve-to-see-more-focus-on-problems/article_eb3eb773-5096-58f0-95f3-655743b78652.html...

“If GOP legislators believe in public education as much as they claim – or as much as Kansans always have – they have a strange way of showing it. “Every idea that comes into a legislator’s head, or through the pipeline from some conservative think tank, seems to be finding its way into bill form, if not necessarily to a committee hearing or floor debate. The real worry is that some of these ill-considered proposals will reach the governor’s desk, and end up as laws that only make it harder for teachers to teach and children to succeed.”...