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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Public Money is for PUBLIC Goods
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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Leave a Comment Perspective from Rep. Jo Ella Hoye via the Shawnee Mission Post
“The pandemic has required all of us to improvise, adapt, and overcome. This is a public health emergency. Proposing these extreme policy changes as a reaction to the past year is irresponsible. Students have been and will continue to be impacted by this disaster, and our Constitutional obligation is to ‘provide for intellectual, educational, vocational and scientific improvement by establishing and maintaining public schools…’ The Kansas Supreme Court found the 2019 school funding formula to be adequate, but we will not be fully funding our schools until 2023.” Originally published to Facebook 2/2/2021....
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