We’re grateful for superintendents working to inform and engage their communities! “Steve Spilchal, superintendent of Eudora USD 491, said he has received positive feedback from ‘Everything to Lose,’ a short video he recently posted on his district’s Facebook page, calling patrons to contact their legislators and let them know how the recent proposed cuts in state aid to schools will impact the eastern Douglas County district. “Spilchal said social media ‘gives us a way to engage in a dialogue that simply isn’t part of the school website.’ “’You could very easily remove ‘Eudora’ and substitute any Kansas community...
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Will lawmakers listen to districts and parents?
We hope parents are making their voices heard as well. Apparently sometimes legislators forget that our school districts are speaking on behalf of our children and not for themselves. “The only groups that testified in favor of the bill were the Kansas Chamber of Commerce; the Kansas Policy Institute, a free-market think tank; and the tea party group Kansans for Liberty. “Will lawmakers listen to the school districts, as Ryckman promised, or will they do the bidding of special interests?” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/opinion/editorials/article13144613.html...
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Leave a Comment Legislature on cusp of narrowly passing bill to abolish school funding formula
Here are the votes on House Sub SB 7 (the block grant bill repealing the current formula and underfunding our schools for the next 2 years). The final vote will be held today at 8 am. Keep contacting your legislators! On roll call the vote was: Yea – (64): (Are they representing you?) Anthimides, Barker, Barton, Bradford, Bruchman, Brunk, Campbell, Carpenter, Carpenter, Claeys, Concannon, Corbet, Couture-Lovelady, Davis, DeGraaf, Dove, Esau, Estes, Garber, Grosserode, Hawkins, Hedke, Highland, Hildabrand, Hoffman, Houser, Huebert, Hutchins, Hutton, Jones, Jones, Kahrs, Kelley, Kelly, Kiegerl, Kleeb, Lunn, Macheers, Mason, Mast, McPherson, Merrick, O’Brien, Osterman, Pauls,...
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Leave a Comment Senate Ways and Means to hear block grant bill March 10
The Senate Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on SB 273 (block grant bill identical to HB 2403) tomorrow. Contact Senate Ways and Means committee members, and urge them to vote NO on SB 273. Ty.Masterson@senate.ks.gov, jim.denning@senate.ks.gov, laura.kelly@senate.ks.gov, tom.arpke@senate.ks.gov, steve.fitzgerald@senate.ks.gov, Dan.Kerschen@senate.ks.gov, Jeff.Melcher@senate.ks.gov, Michael.ODonnell@senate.ks.gov, Larry.Powell@senate.ks.gov, Caryn.Tyson@senate.ks.gov...
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