We agree. Game On! “Football coaches are held to a higher standard than the people who directly impact the most important aspects of our lives – our public education, programs that affect the poor and the elderly, the infrastructure we all rely on that is essential to maintaining our state’s commerce… “Until more people are willing to get off the sideline and get involved, we’ll continue to have a poor head coach with a terrible game plan leading Kansas to one losing season after another. “Maybe if we think of our dilemma in terms of football metaphors we’ll...
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Lynn Grant files for KS Senate 13th District
“Today Lynn Grant, of Frontenac, filed to run for the Kansas Senate in the 13th District, which covers Crawford, Cherokee, Bourbon, and parts of Labette Counties. “Grant, who filed by petition, has spent the past several weeks traveling the district, talking to voters, and collecting signatures.” Read more here: http://www.lynngrantforsenate.com/#!Grant-Announces-Run-for-Kansas-Senate/tdqwg/56da58b00cf2bc6add19d805...
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Leave a Comment Committee discussion on finance bill revealing
On March 17, the Senate Ways and Means committee passed a bill that seeks to comply with the Gannon equity decision by redistributing money already allocated. The comments in this committee and House appropriations generally revealed a lack of honest discussion about how the legislature ended up here and the scope of its options. Our initial take is that this may be one way of complying on equity but will hurt the state’s position on adequacy. SB 512 passes on voice vote. Sens. Francisco, Kerschen, Kelly and Denning voted no....
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Leave a Comment School funding bills addressed in committees
“A Kansas Senate committee gave the go-ahead Thursday [March 17] to a proposed fix of the state’s school equalization formula, but a similar plan in a House committee drew bitter reaction from lawmakers and didn’t advance. “Legislators are trying to beat a June 30 deadline imposed by the state Supreme Court. Unless a new equalization formula is in place by then, the court said last month, public schools won’t open for the 2016-2017 school year.” Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article66628592.html#storylink=cpy Update: the Senate bill was eventually pulled as well and a new bill emerged....
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