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Remember the corporate tax credit scholarship bill passed in Kansas in 2014 and expanded this year? It was an ALEC bill and is part of the problem described in this piece. “School vouchers were never about helping poor, at-risk or minority students. But selling them as social mobility tickets was a useful fiction that for some twenty-five years helped rightwing ideologues and corporate backers gain bipartisan support for an ideological scheme designed to privatize public schools. “But the times they are a-changin’. Wisconsin is well on its way towards limitless voucher schools, and last month, Nevada signed into...

Please read and share KASB’s Mark Tallman’s explanation of why school districts are cutting budgets when total funding is up. Why are school districts cutting budgets when total funding is up? As school boards across Kansas adopt budgets for the upcoming year, the media is reporting two different situations. School administrators in some districts have laid off staff and are cutting programs for students while nearly all districts are making tough choices. But others, such as Gov. Sam Brownback and legislative leaders, are saying that school funding is at an all-time high, and the new block grant system,...