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 SB 103 would decrease funding for all at-risk programs by removing free and reduced lunch students above 3rd grade from the “at-risk” definition despite abundant research showing a very direct correlation between poverty and academic struggles. SMSD would be directly affected by this bill and opposes it.  Here’s KASB on the issue: http://tallmankasb.blogspot.com/2013/02/kasb-statement-on-funding-for-at-risk.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TallmanEducationReport+%28Tallman+Education+Report%29...

 “Somebody’s got to say something.” Dr. Cynthia Lane, Superintendent KCK Schools on attempts to amend the constitution rather than fund schools at the level the legislature determined almost a decade ago and take away political rights of teachers unions. We’re “saying something”, are you? Join us in telling our legislators, family, friends and neighbors that Kansans want funded schools not political maneuvers. http://blog.kckps.org/?p=314...

So even though the constitution says the legislature has to make suitable provision for financing public education, that is apparently meaningless and is whatever the legislature says it should be. Why do we even have a constitution then? Why do we even have a judicial branch? http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2013/feb/13/supporters-amendment-say-legislature-should-be-sol/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter  ...

“THE United States supports schools in Afghanistan because we know that education is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to build a country. Alas, we’ve forgotten that lesson at home. All across America, school budgets are being cut, teachers laid off and education programs dismantled.” Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, 7/17/11 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/opinion/sunday/17kristof.html?_r=0  ...