The Senate passed ANOTHER expansion of the tax credit “scholarship” program on Wednesday, February 19th, and while it was falsely claimed that opponents didn’t talk about students, they soundly rejected proposed amendments that would increase transparency and oversight over the program or ensure that the low-income students that were originally the justification for this program actually have the ability to use it. There hasn’t even been an amendment to reduce the SCHOOL choice that is a feature not a bug for its proponents. We’ve shared this before, but this is an image of an actual application from a...
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Tax credit “scholarships” are vouchers!
We know some people are being told that tax credit “scholarships” are not vouchers, but As Josh Cowen explains, if it’s money that gets used for private school costs and you have to leave the public schools to use them, they’re vouchers. Not all vouchers are tax credit “scholarships,” (some are ESAs or direct tuition payments, but all tax credit “scholarships” are vouchers. Originally posted to Facebook on 2/19/2025....
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Leave a Comment Senate Action Alert on SB 47 for Wednesday, 2/19
We have another Action Alert for Wednesday, February 19th in the Senate. Contact your Senator and urge them to oppose SB 47, a blatant attempt by a special interest group to change Kansas school board policy in ways that would make it easier to harass school board members, usurp local authority over school board policies and operations and override the will of local citizens by giving minority members the ability to hijack board operations. We submitted testimony which we’ll share below. Some points you may wish to raise with your Senator include: This bill was requested by Mike...
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Leave a Comment CONTACT YOUR SENATOR TODAY AND URGE THEM TO OPPOSE SB 87 ON FINAL ACTION (LIKELY WEDNESDAY 2/19)
The Senate is one step away from passing SB 87, the egregious expansion of the private school voucher tax credit “scholarship” program. The only successful amendment was removing the provision to raise the tax credit from 75% to 100%. The rest of our objections remain. *75% tax credits are tax avoidance, not charity. *This bill is a significant, unjustified expansion of this problematic program— this bill moves even farther away from supporting the original 200,000 free lunch Kansas kids; every next tuition “scholarship” can skip right over free/reduced lunch public school students; this bill lifts the entitlement budget...
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