Iowa and Kansas are facing a major push to send tax dollars to private schools without imposing standards on those schools. Read one Iowa mom’s perspective. “I cannot stand by and be silent when it is proposed that tax dollars be taken away from my son’s only choice in education and be given to private schools that are allowed to reject him because of his diagnosis.” https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2021/01/29/school-choice-competition-iowa-education-outcomes-families/4296546001/ Originally posted to Facebook 1/30/2021....
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Our own Judith Deedy had the opportunity to participate in this thoughtful podcast on the remote/in-person situation. Check it out. Update: the SM Schools bond issue discussed passed 69/31. Originally posted to Facebook 1/31/2021....
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This post is from Iowa, but we agree with the sentiment. The Kansas House K-12 Education Budget will be hearing HB 2119, an Education Savings Account bill, on Monday, February 8th. We plan to be there to tell them our members believe public money should be for public schools, not private schools. Originally posted to Facebook 2/1/2021....
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Legislators Fast-Tracking Tax Credit Scholarship (Voucher) Program Our first Action Alert of the 2021 legislative session. The Senate Education Committee and House K-12 Education Budget Committee have passed identical bills SB 61 and HB 2068, the tax credit expansion bill out of their committees. This bill is being fast-tracked. Please contact your House and Senate representatives and urge them to vote NO. This bill would move away from the premise the passage of the program was originally based on and expand eligibility to students on free AND reduced-price lunch rather than just free lunch (free lunch is the...
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