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The success or lack thereof of Brownback’s tax plan has a direct impact on education funding. As explained in a recent Wichita Eagle article, “After the economy crashed in 2008, the federal government provided temporary funding to help states limit cuts to schools and other critical services. As the economy improved and that funding went away, Brownback and GOP lawmakers chose not to replace it. Instead, they cut taxes. Brownback told the superintendents that this was the best long-term decision, because if the Kansas economy can grow more, ‘we can fund things.’ But he acknowledged that for school districts,...

The next time you hear we need vouchers (or corporate tax credit “scholarships”) to give choice to poor children, think of this warning from Ohio. “Now that Ohio’s sending more than $1 billion this year to privately run Charter Schools and Private Schools through Vouchers, it is important to examine the impact of those decisions made in Columbus have on the 92% of Ohio’s kids that do not attend Charters or Vouchers. The impact is profound. Like asteroid or comet profound.” http://10thperiod.blogspot.com/2014/01/ohios-school-choice-funding-scheme.html?m=0...

When people talk about education spending, they often seem to forget how many children with special needs there are in our school districts. Here’s a piece that explains what’s missing when people focus on averages or think that our student body is the same as it was in the past.http://heimkasb.blogspot.com/2014/02/outside-averages-some-very-special.html...