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This is part of why we walked to Topeka: “Atha stressed the importance of at-risk funding, which is based on family income, to addressing the special problems of poor students. ‘If in the future this funding were to be cut or eliminated, it would prove to be catastrophic,’ he said, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal. Kansans can hope such reports from the front lines of K-12 schools are instructive for GOP state lawmakers, many of whom are inexplicably seeking to equalize school district funding by cutting it.” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/03/30/3373606/eagle-editorial-poverty-affecting.html#storylink=cpy...

The Capital Journal has two good letters to the editor today. You don’t have to walk to Topeka to get vocal. Write a letter to the editor. Letter: Don’t dilute school funding Cutting school funding is akin to eating your “seed corn.” You may be fed now, but you will starve later. . . Educating the next generation is hard work. Voting to cut funding is quick and easy. The quick and easy path is always the wrong choice. Diluting taxpayer funding of public schools is the initiation for destroying a civilized society. No money, no education. And yes,...