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Indiana has had its Choice Scholarship program and a voucher program for several years. Kansas should heed its warning as the same approach is being tried here, and last week’s hearing showed House Education Committee leadership wants the Corporate Education Tax Credit Scholarship bill passed. PLEASE CONTACT HOUSE EDUCATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND TELL THEM TO OPPOSE House SUB SB 22. “The voucher program in Indiana was defended as a method that would allow poor Hoosier children to escape from failing schools. Of course, many of us knew that was nothing more than a slogan. There never was a voucher...

Please read this article. Game On was among several testifying against the bill to create a corporate tax credit scholarship bill in Kansas. Please contact House Education Committee members. They need to hear from public school student supporters: kasha.kelley@house.ks.gov, ward.cassidy@house.ks.gov, ed.trimmer@house.ks.gov, sue.boldra@house.ks.gov, john.bradford@house.ks.gov, carolyn.bridges@house.ks.gov, diana.dierks@house.ks.gov, willie.dove@house.ks.gov, john.ewy@house.ks.gov, shanti.gandhi@house.ks.gov, amanda.grosserode@house.ks.gov, dennis.hedke@house.ks.gov, ron.highland@house.ks.gov, roderick.houston@house.ks.gov, jerry.lunn@house.ks.gov, nancy.lusk@house.ks.gov, kelly.meigs@house.ks.gov, melissa.rooker@house.ks.gov, valdenia.winn@house.ks.gov.http://cjonline.com/news/2014-02-21/lawmakers-eye-tax-credits-private-school-tuition...

In case you’re thinking that school boards and municipalities don’t need involvement from parents, teachers and other community members on the bills to move local elections, see this email from Sen. Smith who is on the committee but is objecting to hearing from Kansans outside his district and is noting he’s mostly heard opposition from elected officials and not “average voters”: “Thank you for your email. I appreciate you sharing your concerns and opinion with me. I have received several emails, most from people not in my district, asking that this bill be stopped. I have also received several...

Action Alert: We know, we’re posting AGAIN, and we’re sorry about that, but as we’ve been paying attention to charters, vouchers, etc., and while broadband, gay discrimination and spanking bills have been in the news, another set of bills has been quietly making their way through the legislature. This post addresses Senate Bill 211 (major changes in school board and other municipal elections). PLEASE CONTACT COMMITTEE MEMBERS LISTED BELOW. This week, the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee began working SB 211, which would move local spring elections to coincide with November general elections in even-numbered years. The committee...