Good coverage of the current school funding situation and its intersection with attacks on the courts. “Kansas state legislators are locked in a balance-of-power fight with justices on the Kansas Supreme Court over how much of the state’s diminishing tax revenue to spend on educating children. “Life of the Law’s award-winning reporter Ashley Cleek reports on the fight from the classroom to courthouse. Throughout the state, teachers and school administrators are struggling with deep budget cuts, while in Topeka the funding fight has turned into a heated debate over the balance of power between the three branches of...
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Game On talks school funding and 2016 Walk on KKFI
Thank you to KKFI for inviting us to talk about school funding and our upcoming walk. Game On’s segment is the first part of the podcast. http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/womens-history-month-2/...
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Leave a Comment Game On to walk “because our kids are worth it”
“Started by Merriam mom Heather Ousley four years ago, the walk has grown into one of the group’s largest displays of support for better school funding. ‘We walk because our kids are worth it — all our kids,’ said Heather in a release announcing this year’s dates. ‘And we refuse to let them down.’” Read more here: http://pvpost.com/2016/03/07/game-on-for-kansas-schools-will-make-fourth-trek-to-topeka-starting-friday-48113 ...
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Leave a Comment Game On walk to heighten awareness of attacks
“Consider the crusade one way to heighten awareness of relentless attacks from state policymakers desperate to paint public education as some sort of excessive expense, instead of acknowledging the positive return on investment in our schools.” Read more here: http://www.gctelegram.com/opinion/walk-on-group-s-focus-on-education-helps-more-kansans/article_b2af89e9-6f6e-577f-99e0-07aa64a68d8f.html?hash=f8933634665177f2ce575fe7705f3307&site=garden_city70...
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