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Legislative interim committee meetings continue with “conspicuous absence” of “key education voices”

The interim education meetings continue today. Yesterday’s hearing “raised questions about the conspicuous absence of state education department staff and state school board members”. Legislative hearing on school finance excludes key education voices cjonline.com http://cjonline.com/news/2013-11-06/legislative-hearing-school-finance-excludes-key-education-voices...
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Legislative interim committee to hear from school “choice” advocates

The legislative committee that meets between sessions to discuss education issues will hold its first meeting tomorrow and Thursday, and their agenda has been published. In addition to presentations by staff of the Kansas Legislative Research Department and the Office of the Revisor of Statutes, there are 2 presentations by staff of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice (which boasts on its website that it’s known as “the nation’s original advocate of school choice” and “the nation’s leading advocate of vouchers”), 2 presentations by Dave Trabert, who is both paid president of the Kansas Policy Institute (which favors...
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Some legislators want to be able to influence supreme court justices on school funding

The next time you hear changing judicial selection has nothing to do with school funding cases, think of this statement by Rep. Lunn. (Read the whole article too-it’s a good recap.) “In a meeting last week with higher education officials, state Rep. Jerry Lunn, R-Overland Park, put Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little on notice, saying that KU and other universities should prepare for significant decreases in funding if the court orders legislators to increase funding to public schools. ‘You really do have a horse in this race,’ Lunn said to Gray-Little. He suggested that Gray-Little ‘talk to your...
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