Here are updates on the school construction and bond and interest bills from KASB: House Education makes significant changes to construction bill The House Education Committee recommended a heavily amended HB 2486 Tuesday [March 15]. Here is the bill before the amendments. The new bill would cap the amount of money the state would be obligated to pay for school building projects. The new bill would also get rid of any references to “instructional areas” and would also use the Kansas State Board of Education as the final arbitrator in determining which districts would be eligible for state...
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Neighbor files for House District 18
Cindy Neighbor, a Shawnee Democrat, has filed with the Johnson County Election Office to run for District 18 in the Kansas House of Representatives, challenging Shawnee City Councilman Eric Jenkins, a Republican, for the seat. The seat is currently held by Rep. John Rubin, R-Shawnee, who has decided not to run for a fourth term. The 18th District includes most of eastern Shawnee. Read more here: http://m.shawneedispatch.com/news/2016/mar/14/cindy-neighbor-files-election-house-district-18-ch/?templates=mobile...
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Leave a Comment House chooses not to bring HB 2199 sex ed bill to the floor
UPDATE from Mainstream Coalition on March 15, 2016: The Kansas House has opted not to bring this bill [HB 2199 making sex ed opt in only] to the floor! Your hundreds of emails on this bill have had an effect! We will stay vigilant, but thank you, thank you, thank you for doing more than voting!...
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Leave a Comment Real world of school funding
The real world of school funding By Rod Haxton, editor of The Scott County Record There are two political worlds in which we live. There’s the world where we can deport nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants, tax cuts will always (always!) lead to balanced budgets and no one would be crazy enough to elect Donald Trump president. And there’s reality. It would probably scare the bejesus out of us if we knew how few in America are living in the latter. In Kansas, we have ultraconservatives in the governor’s office and in the legislature who are creating their...
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