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“‘All of us in public education are just beat up daily by the people who don’t believe in public education … it’s been brutal the past three years and it will just be intolerable this year,’ said Bridges, a member of the House Education Committee. ‘So I think there needs to be someone who maybe won’t take it as personally as I have.’” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article49832855.html...

“Shawnee County school board presidents on Monday said their districts are bracing for midyear cuts to their budgets, and that the fairness and adequacy of state aid for schools is high on their list of concerns. “In their first effort to present a unified, county-wide voice on public education matters to Topeka-area lawmakers, representatives of the five school districts based in Shawnee County said Kansas should fund early childhood education and full-day kindergarten.” Read more here: http://m.cjonline.com/news/2015-12-14/shawnee-county-school-boards-make-k-12-funding-plea-lawmakers#.VnAsYgUbHuo.twitter&gsc.tab=0...

“Have we not been tightening our belts for months?” Hinson said. “And then for the legislature that had the longest session ever to spend all that money [on the excess days in session], and then to spend close to $3 million for this audit, I think that brings concern to all of us about the motivation, about the intent behind that process.” “Hinson said the district had heard nothing about the creation of a new school finance formula, a step that was promised as part of the move to a two-year block grant funding system that was supposed...