“A special legislative committee charged with studying ways to finance public schools in Kansas held its first meeting Friday, October 23rd but it did not even begin discussion of a new funding formula. “Instead, the Special Committee on K-12 Student Success sifted through a mountain of data about how schools are currently spending their funds and how they account for the difference between “classroom” and “non-classroom” expenditures.” Read more here: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/oct/23/k-12-committee-begins-looking-school-finance/...
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Lawmakers continue to bully school districts
“For now, as Schwab’s recent email and Brownback’s continued comments show, GOP lawmakers seem content to bully school districts that dare to speak out on how taxpayers could finance better K-12 education in Kansas.” http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article41224263.html...
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Leave a Comment O’Donnell shows he’s not pro-public education
Here’s a tip. If your legislator acts like the block grant funding, which freezes operational budgets at unconstitutional levels, takes away some of the equalization aid that was granted to comply with the Gannon equity decision, and fails to account for rising enrollment was a wonderful thing for Kansas schools, and cites Kansas Policy Institute numbers on school funding, your legislator is not what we would call pro-public education....
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“[C]halk this up as just another way for Republican legislators to threaten and bully school districts that dare to try to rally people to see things their way. “It’s par for the course for politics these days in Kansas, where Brownback’s income tax cuts have failed to produce the jobs and revenues once promised. “As a result, K-12 schools will be suffering for years to come from being underfunded, unless the courts step in and rectify the situation. “Scott Schwab, it appears, won’t be rushing to assist the schools in that category.” Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article41172225.html...
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