We’re in! The game is on. Distract, divide and conquer is the playbook being used by Governor Brownback and his allies in the Kansas Legislature. Join Us. www.joinusks.org...
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KASB President Shimkus to challenge Abrams
Don Shimkus, a school board member from Oxford and current president of the Kansas Association of School Boards, announced Wednesday that he will run as a Democrat for a seat in the Kansas Senate. Shimkus is challenging incumbent Republican Steve Abrams of Arkansas City in the 32nd District in south-central Kansas. Abrams is a veterinarian and chairman of the Senate Education Committee. http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/capitol-report/2015/nov/18/kasb-president-to-run-against-abrams-for/...
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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...
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Leave a Comment Shawnee County board presidents make plea to legislators
“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...
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