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Huff Post explains ALEC education agenda which shows how corporate tax credit scholarships and end of teacher due process ended up in Kansas education finance bill

This is an older piece but it helps connect the dots for those of you wondering how 2 seemingly unrelated policy pieces, corporate tax credit scholarships and the elimination of due process for teachers, ended up in the Gannon equity finance bill. “Today, 17 states offer 33 programs that allow parents to use taxpayer money to send their children to private schools. This includes traditional vouchers as well as tax-credit scholarship programs that give individuals or corporations tax reductions if they donate to scholarship funds. My home state of Arizona adopted this tactic. Vouchers are only one side...
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Bad bundling used against Kansas judiciary as well

The Kansas legislature recently took the same approach to combining funding and other questionable measures in a single bill pertaining to the judicial branch. We understand the need for a strong, impartial judiciary and oppose punishing the court for ruling on school finance. This is another example of bad policy and bad government. “At the very least, such a legislative overhaul of the judicial system’s administration deserved more thoughtful study and public debate. The measures bundled together in the final bill never even were considered by the House Judiciary Committee. The Kansas Association of Defense Counsel, for example,...
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Crowson on importance of informed participation at the voting booth

We need more Kansans to be able to see beyond postcard rhetoric. We’re posting information here. Share it with your friends, family and neighbors. It’s time to get in the game! “I look forward to the day when I can report that my neighbor around the corner just restored teachers’ basic rights to due process and funded public education at a more-than-adequate level. For that to happen, there’s a lot of educating to be done outside of the schools – the educating of good old average Kansans about the damage they are doing to you, to me and to...
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