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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Leave a Comment Hays Daily News awaits court action to restore rule of law
“Thank goodness we have three co-equal branches of government. It appears it will be up to the judiciary to help rein in executive and legislative branches not acting on behalf of the people they are supposed to be serving. “The 64 House members doing Brownback’s bidding on Friday have had their moment in the sun. So will the Senate when it passes this horrific piece of legislation next week and sends it to the governor for his signature. “Then it will be the court’s turn to halt the lawless lawmakers in their tracks…The Kansas Constitution requires lawmakers to...
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Leave a Comment Rep. Becker on why he opposes the block grant bill
Thank you, Representative Becker, for this explanation of your opposition to the block grant bill. The school finance block grant bill is widely recognized as the most important vote of this session. I was the only member of the Reno County delegation to oppose it. Since I heard from so many of my constituents it is important I explain my vote. The bill was officially determined by the House Rules Committee to be an education bill and not an appropriation bill even though the bill came out of the Appropriations Committee. A hearing was held in the Appropriations...
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