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“The people of Kansas, in their wisdom, in Amendment 6 to the Kansas Constitution, made clear that education is a fundamental right of all Kansans and charged the legislature with the ‘suitable provision of finance’… Amending the state constitution will never change what is right, and it will certainly not keep people across this state who believe in the fundamental right to a …quality education, who view education as a major economic driver, and who embrace the traditional separation of powers and adherence to constitutional law, from using the courts to fight for what is right for children,...

“Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void.” Marbury v. Madison, 1803. Really, 1803. Judicial review is not new, nor is it activist. It serves to protect fundamental interests embedded in the constitution even when a temporary majority would choose to subvert them....

We don’t want SMSD school board elections politicized. Another cure in search of a disease. http://cjonline.com/news/2013-02-20/witnesses-rip-plan-make-school-elections-partisan...

http://changekansas.org/action/petition/protect-public-education-funding...