Rep. Jerry Lunn “pressed a district court judge Monday on whether a court order to force the state to pay more to schools could lead to funding cuts for the court system.” “The exchange occurred during a hearing on the budget for the Kansas judicial branch.” Read more: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/prairie-politics/article14580998.html...
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Block grant bill passes, legislators warn courts
Our legislature is refusing to listen to us, accusing us of being misinformed and threatening to change the courts if they dare to uphold the constitution rather than make our children pay the price for tax cuts that aren’t working. “If the courts want to insist on this course of action, it could well cause a constitutional crisis in this state,” said state Rep. John Rubin, a Shawnee Republican who supported the block grant bill. “’We certainly have the right to legislate in this body how we’re going to fund schools. If the courts think otherwise, they’re sadly...
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On March 16, the Senate passed SB 7 (block grant bill repealing the current school funding formula) 25-14. On roll call the vote was: Yea – (25) (Are they representing you?) Abrams, Arpke, Baumgardner, Bruce, Denning, Donovan, Fitzgerald, Holmes, King, Knox, LaTurner, Lynn, Masterson, Melcher, Olson, Ostmeyer, Petersen, Pilcher-Cook, Powell, Pyle, Smith, Tyson, Wagle, Wilborn, Wolf. Nay – (14) (Thank them) Bowers, Faust-Goudeau, Francisco, Haley, Hawk, Hensley, Holland, Kelly, Kerschen, Longbine, Love, McGinn, Pettey, Schmidt. Absent and Not Voting O’Donnell...
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Game On community, please know that in addition to our website, we maintain a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/gameonforksschools. The blog on this website is a compilation of most of those posts. Did you also know that the blog on this website is searchable? f you want to get more information on an issue, you can plug a term into the search box and pull up all the posts we’ve done on that issue....
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