We keep hearing reports of arm twisting going on behind the scenes in Topeka. We hear legislators are being threatened that if they don’t vote with party leadership on particular bills they will lose their committee chairmanships, or their schools will lose funding, or they will be subject to postcards in their next legislative session. As concerned community members, we can throw up our hands and say Washington style politics has come to Kansas, and the game is over. Or we can contact our legislators and tell them we are watching their votes and will base how we...
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SMSD mom on why we all need government services
A Shawnee Mission School District mom explains why we need our state to provide core services. “I see Kim, our vision teacher, teaching Danny as a nearly blind infant, to recognize our faces. I see Linda and Harrietta, amazing friends, caring for adults with physical and intellectual disabilities in their homes. I see other friends, too many to name, working tirelessly and lovingly, as teachers and administrators in our schools. There are no bogey men. There are only hard working, honest people fixing our roads and bridges, teaching our children, inspecting our food and water, presiding over our...
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Leave a Comment Keep merit selection of justices in Kansas
“Lawmakers should resist ruining a Supreme Court selection process with a 57-year record of judicial independence and impartiality, especially with the former Senate Judiciary Committee chairman now quoting Brownback as saying in 2012 he wanted to ‘change the way we select judges so we can get judges who will vote the way we want them to.’” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/opinion/editorials/article11036060.html...
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Leave a Comment Lawmakers propose yet another bill to alter PNA
Originally posted February 23, 2015: We are having trouble keeping track of all the teacher negotiations bills, but we remain convinced that the right thing to do is to pass the bill containing the agreement between the superintendents association, the school administrators association, the school boards association and the teachers union. We also continue to believe the other bills have nothing to do with “efficiency” and have everything to do with dividing the education community, squelching the teachers union and leaving teachers feeling vulnerable. Here’s information on the latest bill out of the House Commerce Committee. Rep. Kleeb...
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