Clicking on this link will allow you to input your address and generate an email to your legislator automatically urging them to vote no on the two bills to amend the Kansas Constitution provisions on judicial selection. Judicial selection is directly related to school funding. We do not want justices to be subject to a litmus test based on whether they would support judicial intervention on school funding cases. Urge your legislators to vote NO on HCR 5004 and 5005. “Our courts are too important for politics as usual. I want our Kansas Supreme Court to be remain...
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Senate committee passes bill to move local elections, keep nonpartisan
We still oppose having primaries for school board elections in August when many families are on vacation and having school board members take office in the middle of the school year. We are concerned that moving them to November of even years and leaving them nonpartisan will be a step toward making those other changes in a future legislative session. “School board primaries and elections would be held in August and November of odd-numbered years and would be non-partisan under an amendment approved Wednesday by the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee. “The committee started working on Senate Bill...
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Leave a Comment Proposals to change judicial selection moving forward
Heads up, Kansas. The push to consolidate power, make our courts prey to the same money and political pressures impacting the other two branches of our government and eliminate the ability of our courts to protect our public schools has advanced another step. “Kansans would either elect state Supreme Court justices or governors and legislators would have more power in deciding who sits on the high court under rival proposals advancing in the Legislature. “Both proposals approved by the House Judiciary Committee this week would amend the state constitution to scrap the current system, in which a lawyer-led...
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Leave a Comment Duane Goossen explains reality of cuts to KS classrooms
Duane Goossen explains the reality of cuts to Kansas classrooms. “Make no mistake, the governor has proposed to cut the state’s investment in education as a way to balance the state budget, not because it helps schools. None of these classroom cuts would be necessary if state income tax revenue had not dramatically plummeted. “Kansas needs a stable, ongoing source of revenue that matches normal, reasonable expenses. We are far from that now.” Read more here: http://realprosperityks.com/duane-goossen-governors-school-finance-cuts/...
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