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“Children like Lucky are why we’re dedicated to helping children in need. Save the Children works in the world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities in countries from America to Zimbabwe — saving one child at a time. Sadly, we know firsthand that far too many children aren’t getting the help they need.” (Save the Children website).   Wednesday, Brownback visited after-school programs to improve reading in Iola and Pittsburg, which have partnered with the relief group best known for its TV campaigns urging Americans to sponsor aid for vulnerable children in developing countries.   Relying on charity organizations...

“This editorial board and many citizens across the state raised this same concern before Brownback signed massive income-tax cuts last year. How could the state afford to lose that much tax revenue, especially when it likely would lose the school-funding lawsuit?” The sales tax extension is being promoted as the key to higher ed funding, additional income tax cuts and additional K-12 funding in the event that the Kansas Supreme Court rules (again!) that the legislature is unconstitutionally underfunding schools. How far can .6 cents go? http://www.kansas.com/2013/04/26/2777799/eagle-editorial-funds-needed-for.html Eagle editorial: Funds needed for schools | Wichita Eagle www.kansas.com...

We are deeply troubled by Brownback’s assertions that the income tax plan has nothing to do with the current struggle over higher ed funding. He claims extending the sales tax that is set to expire will solve the higher ed funding problems. We know that some legislators have agreed to support the sales tax extension but only if it is part of a deal to further cut income taxes, which will wipe out any budget gains from the sales tax increase. When the governor signed this massive tax bill last year, we knew that cuts to education would...

Research shows vouchers, corporate tax credit scholarships and other market based “reforms” that are being pushed in Kansas and multiple other states don’t actually work.  http://www.ncjustice.org/sites/default/files/Public%20Money%20for%20Private%20Schools%20-%20Neovouchers.pdf...