We don’t believe the block grant bill provides certainty and stability. The funds promised in the bill have yet to be appropriated, operating funds are fixed for 2 years though our student bodies and costs to our districts are not, and there is no indication of what a new formula will look like or whether our legislature can even manage to pass one. The bill also can’t be separated from the fact that the reason they are willing to talk about a new formula is that they can’t fund the one we have with the current revenue stream....
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Game On speakers share motivation and hope
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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Leave a Comment 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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Leave a Comment USD 383 board member Estabrook joins Game On walk
“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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