CALL TO ACTION: Coronvirus Recovery – support IDEA emergency funding and flexibility. You don’t have to be a school board member to use this form from the National School Board Association Action Center.“We urge Congress to fully fund the federal share of the national investment in special education, IDEA, this year or at least provide a minimum of $13 billion immediately through the next supplemental appropriation. Also, Congress needs to provide narrowly tailored and temporary flexibility to school districts as they continue to act in good faith to provide appropriate special education and related services to the extent...
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Kansas Leads the Way
Good job, Kansas! Here’s a KSN.com article about how other states look to Kansas for continuous learning help. Originally posted to Facebook 4/16/2020...
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Leave a Comment ACTION ALERT – April 29, 2020
While we normally focus our advocacy efforts at the state level, the tremendous hit to the Kansas economy is having a devastating impact on Kansas revenues, which may have an unavoidable effect on the funding available for public schools. Those of us who recall the budget cuts from the Great Recession know how much damage those budget cuts inflicted and how we are still attempting to recover from them. Please urge our Kansas congressional delegation to help states (which unlike the federal government can’t run a deficit) provide essential services while dealing with a global pandemic. Call or...
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Leave a Comment Tax Credit Scholarship Expansion Opposition Testimony
Game On for Kansas Schools submitted testimony in opposition to House Bill 2465. This bill would amend and expand the current tax credit scholarship program to include ALL students (not just those in the attendance area of the lowest-performing elementary schools) as long as they are eligible for free OR reduced lunch. Tax credit scholarships are vouchers with Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs) in the middle to avoid the direct funding of religious schools. Game On opposes voucher programs and we oppose this expansion which diverts public dollars to private, religious schools that are not held to the same...
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