“In just a few months, a Catholic foundation has raised more than half a million dollars under a controversial new program to fund private school education for scores of low-income children in northeast Kansas, including Topeka and the Kansas City area. “The Catholic Education Foundation is the largest of five organizations that have stepped forward to join Kansas’ first foray into a national movement championed by some and scorned by others, the goal of which is to increase access to private schools… “Skeptics question the transparency and accountability of many of the schools on this market, and the...
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Do your legislators send their children to public, private or home school?
Game On team, as we have learned more about legislators and their views on public education, we have come to the conclusion that many legislators don’t choose public education for their families. They are absolutely entitled to make that choice, but we believe that is relevant to (though not completely determinative of) their views on the support public schools should receive. Our legislators make major decisions about public school funding and policy on a regular basis. We do not intend to use this information for anything other than a compilation of the types of schools legislators choose. We...
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Leave a Comment Grassroots groups pushing back on ALEC agenda
“But, Chris Suellentrop, nephew of Rep. Gene Suellentrop, R-Wichita, may not know his uncle Gene is associated with a nonprofit group disguised as a lobbying organization called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which meets in secret with nonelected lobbyists, who write the bills that have created the mess we are in. Uncle Gene helps to get them passed in the Kansas Legislature. “Other tidbits about Chris’ uncle Gene should be shared as well. Rep. Suellentrop registered for the ALEC national meeting conducted last month in San Diego using taxpayer dollars. He made a pledge not to increase...
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Leave a Comment JOCO standing up to KPI
“KPI henchman Trabert does more than ponder issues at the think tank. KPI is active in lobbying and campaigning against tax and spending increases. It financed television ads to oppose the proposed tax increase in Johnson County. “When Trabert speaks in Topeka, legislators bow and scrape. Who wants to be on the wrong side of the Kochs — who also control Americans for Prosperity and the Kansas Chamber of Commerce? (Trabert claims the Koch connection to KPI is ‘hooey,’ but he refuses to identify the institute’s funding sources.) “Trabert tried the same tactics in Johnson County he has...
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