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The Communications Director for Governor Sam Brownback sent an e-mail “Our Schools,” on Friday, August 28th. Below is a response from John Robb, Attorney, Schools for Fair Funding. Governor Sam Brownback continues to preach that the sun is shining in Kansas regardless of the facts. It appears that he would continue to say this during a hurricane. He denigrates the actions of 286 locally elected school boards who have been forced to cut classroom spending for our children. He calls their action “bombastic talk.” He claims credit for facility upgrades around the state which were due to bond...

August 28th, Governor Brownback’s office sent out an email indicating that there is nothing wrong with Kansas school funding, that editorial boards and union leaders are engaging in “bombastic talk” and spreading a “false narrative” that our schools “are starving due to lack of funding.” He then focused on new buildings (paid for with funding that can’t be used for classroom operations and at least partially funded by local bond issues), praises teachers and mentions raises in teacher pay for a few districts and technology roll-outs in others. When discussing the block grants, the governor failed to mention...