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Sharing from our friends at Kansas Action for Children: “There are 317 unfilled teaching positions in Kansas. This is a troubling trend that can have ramifications that ripple throughout a community. “We already saw the troubling situation in Garden City, where a teaching vacancy forced the school district to choose between a kindergarten teacher and their pre-k program. “As a state we must do better by our kids to make sure this isn’t a situation more schools are faced with in the future.” Read about unfilled teaching positions here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article38176524.html...

Sharing from our friends at Educate Lawrence: “Governor Brownback and the Kansas legislature’s cuts to school funding has resulted in larger class sizes in our Lawrence schools.” Read more here: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/oct/12/lawrence-school-board-reviews-effects-enrollment-i/...

“‘USD259 KPERS payment arrived today @ 7 am. Sent back at 7:01 am. How should we have invested in kids for that 1 min?’ tweeted Lynn Rogers, a school board member who is running for a state Senate seat… “‘It’s just for appearance sake,’ he said. ‘That’s plain and simple to confuse people and make them think they’re funding more for education – and they’re not. They’re doing what they were legally obligated to do before that.’ “School retirement money used to go straight from the state to KPERS, but that changed in the 2004-2005 budget year, Neuenswander...