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Many of us in Game On have reluctantly come to the conclusion that too many of our current legislators actually don’t support public schools or teachers. The first step is to identify the problem. The second step is to do something about it. Get informed and vote in August and November. “Merrick and company should just admit their disdain for K-12 teachers. They certainly demonstrated as much with school finance legislation laced with anti-public school changes. Hit with negative fallout over the ‘red shirts’ remark, Merrick did express regret. But the House speaker’s pettiness spoke volumes, and gave...

“So how did the charlatans and cranks end up dictating policy in Kansas, and to a more limited extent in other states? Follow the money. For the Brownback tax cuts didn’t emerge out of thin air. They closely followed a blueprint laid out by the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, which has also supported a series of economic studies purporting to show that tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy will promote rapid economic growth. The studies are embarrassingly bad, and the council’s Board of Scholars — which includes both Mr. Laffer and Stephen Moore of the...