Voucher Bills Moving Through KS Legislature CONTACT SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF TAX CREDIT SCHOLARSHIPS. SB61 and HB2068 are identical bills that have passed out of committee and could be heard on the floor at any time. Contact your Senator and your Representative and urge them to vote NO on SB61 (Senate version) and HB2068 (House version). We oppose this bill because it moves further from the tax credit scholarship program’s original premise that it was to help at-risk kids escape “failing” schools. This bill expands eligible students to include those who qualify for reduced-price lunch...
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Yet Another Article on Why Vouchers are a Bad Idea
Some ask why we oppose expansions of Kansas tax credit scholarships and other voucher/neo-voucher bills. Among the reasons is that we have been watching other states for over a decade and once these programs start they get expanded again and again, taking money from public schools despite the data showing that they generally don’t lead to improved outcomes for the students in the programs and often lead to academic losses. Here’s yet another example. From the Fort Wayne Newspapers – Voucher expansion Bill Proposed https://mynewsonthego.com/fortwayne/reader/story.aspx?id=8fcb6b42-a0b1-49e0-9270-8698ac91bd76&fbclid=IwAR2HSr-pGGLfjqlJyA7KUi2mHWc1dzt1yzwQ8z0r2DozRq7GQD-98x__ZQs Originally posted to Facebook 1/31/2021....
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Leave a Comment How Iowa Pushes Back on Vouchers
Some Iowans have found a clever way to illustrate the fact that Iowa voucher bills don’t include academic standards for schools getting voucher funds. The Kansas tax credit scholarships and the bills to expand them lack standards and accountability provisions and HB 2119 to be heard next week in the House K-12 Education Budget Committee doesn’t require any accreditation at all. If these bills are really about helping students why don’t they put any requirements on the schools receiving the funds? Originally published to Facebook 1/30/2021....
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Leave a Comment The View on Vouchers from Iowa
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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