Thank you to Rep. Melissa Rooker and Rep. Jarrod Ousley for starting off the final leg of our walk on Monday and to each of our speakers at the press conference. Here are the words some of them shared. (Some spoke without written statements and are not included here.) Rep. Melissa Rooker Good morning! I’m honored to be here with this great group of parents, teachers and concerned Kansans to celebrate the grassroots activism that brings us all together today. Once upon a time, I was a concerned parent with 2 kids in the Kansas public school system....
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KS education activists march from Merriam to Topeka
“Lauren Van Wagoner joined Game On for the first time this year. Her daughter just started kindergarten and is on the the autism spectrum. Van Wagoner says she’s worried about the effect potential cuts will have on her daughter’s education.” http://kcur.org/post/kansas-education-activists-march-merriam-topeka...
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“Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 school board member Aaron Estabrook is among forces behind Game on for Kansas Schools, a nonpartisan, grassroots public education advocacy group. “Long marches are nothing new to Estabrook, a U.S. Army veteran now on a mission to defend young Kansans’ futures, to include the education of his daughter soon heading to kindergarten. “’She is in the first public education class to be completely subjected to the consequences of the failing tax experiment,’ Estabrook said. ‘Her rights along with the constitutional rights of over 40,000 other 4-year-olds in Kansas are being denied at great cost.”… “Cuts...
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Members of a self described education advocacy group arrived at the Kansas statehouse today, after traveling more than sixty miles on foot to get there…Group members say it is an important time for Kansans to stand up for education. There are several clips to view here: http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Group-Walks-60-Miles-To-Support-Kansas-Education-298025511.html...
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