This year, we will have three walks to Topeka, one from Merriam/Kansas City, one from Manhattan, and one from Emporia. This post covers the Kansas City area walk. (See http://gameonforkansasschools.com/2016/02/game-on-2016-walk-to-include-manhattan-route/ for information on the Manhattan route and http://gameonforkansasschools.com/2016/02/game-on-2016-walk-to-include-emporia-route/ for information on the Emporia route. If you would like to join us for any or all of the walk, or if you can’t walk but can otherwise volunteer (drivers are also needed), please sign up using this Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Oqv0H3iU1sqF44QHGr950llK7vnz4kyOWTFqrQ92XZg/viewform?c=0&w=1. We will coordinate transportation and meals so it is really necessary that we know how many are participating in the walk portions. We...
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Wichita faces large cost increases
“Wichita schools could face as much as $27 million in cost increases next year with no increase in state funding, the district’s top financial official said… “School board president Betty Arnold said school leaders need to be clear with the public that state funding for classroom operating expenses is not increasing, despite overall budget figures that may show funding increases.” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article56609798.html...
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In honor of School Choice Week. In Kansas, we have school choice. We don’t need expansion to multiple charter authorizers that encourages the creation of charter schools that take public tax dollars without adequate protections. Here’s an example from our next door neighbor of what happens all too frequently. “Attorney General Chris Koster said in a statement released Monday that Hope Academy ‘failed to live up to its promises in educating the children in its school.’ The suit his office filed Friday in Jackson County Circuit Court calls for the school and two former employees to account for...
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Leave a Comment Bradford files massive expansion of ALEC tax credit scholarship program
Rep. Bradford has filed a bill to expand the tax credit scholarship program. Among other things, the bill takes away the requirement that students qualify as “at-risk” or attending a Title I focus or priority school, takes away the requirement that students have attended public school the prior year, expands the tax credit from 70% of the corporation’s income tax liability to 100% of ANY TAXPAYER’S income tax liability, and raises the cap of the program from $10 million to $12.5 million. We oppose this expansion for all the same reasons we opposed the original bill and last...
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