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Many of us have gone from not paying attention to being stunned by what happens in Topeka. We would love to be able to sit in committee hearings more often, but our jobs and family responsibilities make that impossible; live streaming would shine a light on these meetings where much of the work of the legislature takes place. Our own Devin Wilson is featured in this article. When the bill comes up again this year, please make sure your legislators know you support letting Kansans see their legislature at work. “Wilson became politically aware and began following Statehouse...

While we absolutely support efficiency in our schools, we think the legislature keeps hoping in vain that Kansas school funding issues will be solved by finding efficiencies that have somehow eluded them in the past. We had the governor’s efficiency commission in 2012 and the K-12 student performance and efficiency commission in 2014, neither of which identified major efficiencies that weren’t already being used in Kansas schools. Now the state has hired a consulting firm for $1.6 million to identify efficiencies in Kansas government, including public schools. Despite all of that, the new K-12 student success commission is...