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Even the NY Times is paying attention. “The potential deadlock over education funding comes as Gov. Sam Brownback, a conservative Republican, and his legislative allies have enacted deep tax cuts. Moderate Republicans and Democrats have said that it was a cruel juxtaposition to slash state revenue by hundreds of millions of dollars at a time when education is underfunded by more than $400 million. Alan L. Rupe, a lawyer for the school districts and students seeking increased funding, criticized the state leaders for passing a tax cut, ‘and then stand here to plead they cannot increase funding to...

Here’s another account. We found particularly troubling the assertions by the State that the Court shouldn’t be involved in determining adequate school funding at all but citizens have recourse by voting every two to four years to oust legislators who don’t fund schools as voters might want. Unfortunately we have found that it is often hard to tell who is voting which way and that many legislators are pretty good at putting pro-education on their campaign postcards and websites while hiding their true positions. We also believe that “suitable provision” for the finance of the public education is...

This is what real improvement looks like-professional development and collaboration-not charters and vouchers. We should be spending more time trying to emulate high performing states rather than racing other states to the bottom.http://www.lowellsun.com/portal/news/ci_24129344/teamwork-fueled-murklands-turnaround-from-underperforming-level-1?_loopback=1...

“We have an ongoing dispute over school funding, but we need to look at seriously beefing up education funding, he says, where there is value in both K-12 and post-secondary education as economic contributors.” Johnson County Commissioner Ed Peterson gets it. Education is an economic contributor not a burden to be minimized. Commissioner Peterson: Johnson County economic trends not encouraging http://pvpost.com/2013/09/25/commissioner-peterson-johnson-county-economic-trends-not-encouraging-21353...