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,...
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Lawrence’s Trei Dudley is A Face of the American Dream! This is a project of Defend the American Dream – Kansas Public Schools. Please click, share & help feature more Kansans who got their start in Kansas public schools! http://www.defendthedreamks.org/...
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Leave a Comment Join Raise Your Hand Kansas! rally for public education Saturday, April 5 in Topeka
We encourage you to participate in the Raise Your Hand for Public Education rally a week from Saturday (April 5) at 3:30 at Topeka High School hosted by KNEA. Kansas is having its own Education Spring! Join in!...
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Leave a Comment House school finance discussion next week to include policy issues eliminated from appropriations bill
“A key House member said Wednesday that school finance discussion next week will include charter school expansion and that leadership negotiations on the amount of new money the Legislature will allocate for schools continue. The House Appropriations Committee received a briefing on a bill meant to satisfy a Kansas Supreme Court school finance ruling but Rep. Marc Rhoades, the committee’s chairman, told members not to limit themselves to the parameters of that bill once an official hearing begins Monday. ‘Bring it,’ Rhoades said of members’ individual ideas. ‘Bring it next week, and we’ll have a discussion on it.’...
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