This week will be busy in the Kansas legislature with multiple harmful bills. Please stay tuned in and help your friends do the same. “If there’s a lack of urgency on finding a new formula, there’s no shortage of ideas for how the Legislature might meddle in public schools and local control… “The House Education Committee has scheduled hearings this week on one bill to let a new legislative panel decide the eligibility of school bond projects for state aid and another to dramatically expand the program offering tax credits for funding private-school scholarships. “On Wednesday the same...
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Bill to ease criminal prosecution of teachers to be heard in House Judiciary
There will also be a hearing Tuesday on last year’s bill to make it easier to prosecute teachers who present lesson materials deemed harmful to minors. Parents, if you haven’t talked to your children’s teachers, please ask them how bills like this make them feel about teaching in Kansas. The bill is being heard in the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday at 3:30. Here’s an article from last year: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article11101289.html...
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Leave a Comment Business leaders displeased with school funding issues
Those of you in the business community who know how important Kansas public schools are to Kansas businesses in terms of having an educated workforce and in being a place business leaders and their employees want to send their children to school, please join us in speaking up in support of public schools. “’We have to resolve our issues with school funding,’ said Ty Patton, general counsel at McCurdy Auction. ‘That is such a black eye for our state. It’s embarrassing.’ “Indeed, while education was once a solid selling point for bringing people into Wichita, a decade of...
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Leave a Comment Tax Credit Scholarship 2016 Legislative Report
We’re working on our testimony for the bill that would massively expand the tax credit scholarship program. The documents on the Kansas Department of Education website are quite enlightening. Here’s the 2016 report: http://www.ksde.org/Portals/0/School%20Finance/Action%20Items/Leglislative%20Report%20January%202016%20%20TCLISSP.pdf...
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