We recommend this new group! Some of us will attend their rally and convention Labor Day weekend in Wichita. Join us! Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/05/04/3439157/newly-formed-group-urging-women.html. Find their website here: http://womenforkansas.org. Find them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/WomenForKansas....
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ALEC bills promote private, for-profit education model without public support
“When the ALEC’s cash-for-kids model is put before the voters, it is resoundingly rejected. In 27 statewide referenda on the topic, voters rejected vouchers on average 2-1. But as long as ALEC ‘models’ continue to garner bipartisan support facilitated by corporate campaign contributions or are slipped into state budgets in the dead of night — ALEC will have continued success with the ‘transformation’ of the American educational system into a profit-driven enterprise. The ALEC Education agenda not only ‘converts a public good into something private, says [chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin...
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Leave a Comment ALEC meeting in Kansas City fitting given ALEC followers in and associated with KS legislature
ALEC came to Kansas City! It’s fitting that they’ve chosen to hold their conference at the Kansas border since Senate President Susan Wagle and House Speaker Ray Merrick are both on the board, many legislators are members and Kansas Policy Institute president Dave Trabert is on the Tax and Fiscal Policy task force (the one that’s having an education subcommittee as we posted earlier). http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/01/4995778/conservative-alec-gathering-in.html...
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Leave a Comment Response to tax cuts changes from business will increase revenue to we just need to cut more expenses
“Rep. Richard Carlson, chairman of the House tax committee, said he thinks the state needs to concentrate more on reducing spending. He said the state needs to let the private sector grow faster than government so it produces more money for government services. ‘We have the revenue. It’s an expenditure problem in the state,’ Carlson said. ‘If we reduced our expenditures, our bond rating would go up.’” Kansans beware. Education is the biggest single expenditure for the state. Other areas have already been cut as well. When the tax plan was implemented, we were told we didn’t need...
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