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Adequate funding not a priority

“The Kansas Legislature is apparently brewing for a battle with the courts – not because they’re right, but because they don’t like being told they’re wrong when it comes to education funding. “In a week’s time, ultra-conservative Republicans in the House and Senate tossed out a school finance plan that had evolved over the course of about 23 years because it was too difficult for them to understand… “They have passed a more simple-minded finance plan that provides block grants to districts. The beauty of this plan, they claim, is that it allows more “local control.” In other...
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Game On invites participation in 2015 Walk to Topeka

Game On community, it’s time to step out of your comfort zone. Our third walk from JOCO to Topeka is later this week and WE NEED YOU. We understand that publicly advocating for our schools is outside the norm for most of us. But desperate times call for desperate measures. We need to get more Kansans in the game and show legislators we’re not satisfied with their handling of our schools and our children. And we have multiple ways to get involved. 1. Walk with us. Join us for the whole walk or join us for a day...
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New York Times covers possible constitutional crisis

“Anybody with an elementary understanding of separation of powers should be shocked to have one branch of government come over and say they’re going to impede the process of the other,” said State Senator Ty Masterson, the Republican chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. “That’d be no different than us passing a law that says, ‘You can render an opinion, but if we do not agree with it, it shall not be published.’ It’s ridiculous on its face.” [Or, Sen. Masterson, to say that you can render an opinion but we’ll refuse to follow it as you’ve...
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