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“Besides cutting base state aid to schools – the operational money that pays teacher salaries – Brownback has seemed much more interested in advancing the agenda of libertarian groups than in aiding teachers.” Read more here: http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2014/08/brownback-to-blame-for-conflict-with-teachers/#storylink=cpy...

“Under Brownback’s leadership, public education has been assaulted. Classroom spending has fallen, while the administration tries to convince voters that money for buildings, meals, pensions and the governor’s pet projects is an increase in classroom spending. ‘When adjusted for inflation … the state’s base support for K-12 education through school district general fund budgets has declined almost $600 million,’Kansas Association of School Boards Mark Tallman explained in a detailed look at education spending. “While the rest of the country has redoubled its investment in education after the Great Recession, Kansas has sacrificed its school budgets on the altar...