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Legislators looking to model Kansas ESAs after Arizona’s controversial program

The interim education committee meetings made clear that ESAs, with Arizona’s program as a model, will be coming back to the Kansas legislature in 2024. Watch this video to see why this is a terrible idea and why we will ask legislators why they’re ignoring the obvious problems with these programs. Learn more from Arizona here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLLO044pBQo&fbclid=IwAR1PxHoAYO48lQqm38XQIu5TcrfrJikqSsNPejmLRvlCUaV97qy9p7I69Yk&ab_channel=SaveOurSchoolsArizona Originally published on Facebook on Oct. 12th, 2023....
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Taxpayer dollars from ESAs used for luxury vacation expenses

ESAs lack sufficient oversight and are an abuse of taxpayer dollars. The examples in Arizona aren’t hypotheticals-they’re actual, documented wasteful expenditures. So why do some Kansas legislators keep pushing them for our state? Don’t they know? Are they just hoping we don’t know? Just say no to ESAs and other vouchers. Originally posted on Facebook on Oct. 12th, 2023....
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School Board Candidate Recommendations Across Kansas

We are seeing extremist candidates throughout the state who support vouchers, oppose teaching emotional skills and offering mental health services, oppose efforts to make all children feel welcome at their schools, use academic misinformation to criticize current board members and districts, want to impose their opinions on books over the judgment of qualified school staff and other patrons, support limiting district revenue, etc. Many of them are sharing information from or aligning with organizations and individuals who have worked against our community schools. Many of them are also being supported by a national PAC based in New York...
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Suburban Parents Fighting Back against extremist group, Moms For Liberty

“A lot of this will sound familiar to people in districts that were taken over by extremists in the last school board elections. Do you know what’s better than reclaiming your board? Not losing it to Moms for Liberty, Moms for America, the 1776 Project PAC, etc. in the first place.” Read full article here: https://www.salon.com/2023/10/10/moms-for-liberty-meets-its-match-parents-in-this-swing-suburban-district-are-fighting-back/?fbclid=IwAR2x0eF5STqqg-FTu3edkPgiqlsNlxT9l98eC_tMAhuHHZ4O_zHcOCBV1PA Originally posted on Facebook, Oct. 11, 2023....
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