From Kansans for Excellence in Education As postcards and Facebook posts keep coming in during this campaign season, it is hard to separate fact from fiction. Below are big-buck anti-public-education organizations that often spread misinformation. They are part of a movement across the state and country to end Kansas public education as we know it. As a voter, you need to know who is paying for candidate ads and who is supporting them. Three candidates for State Board of Education are receiving money from some of these anti-public education organizations. Moms For Liberty, 1776 Project PAC, Americans For...
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Forum for House Districts 19, 24, and 28
The Johnson County Post is holding a forum at 6:00 pm tonight (Tuesday) for House Districts 19, 24 and 28. Candidates running for 3 Kansas House seats in northeastern Johnson County, including parts of Leawood, Merriam, Mission, Overland Park and Prairie Village, will discuss the issues that matter most to local voters and also take questions from the audience. The event will be held in the meeting room at the Johnson County Library’s Leawood Pioneer branch. All candidates in Kansas House districts 19, 24 and 28 have been invited to participate. The event will be moderated by Post...
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Keep the Kansas Supreme Court Above Politics by Alexandra Middlewood, PhD- Insight Kansas On the August primary ballot, Kansans are being asked to decide whether to fundamentally change how we choose justices for our state Supreme Court. The proposed shift from merit selection to popular elections may sound like an expansion of democratic participation. But beneath that appealing rhetoric lies a much more troubling reality: elections risk transforming judges into political actors and, in the process, weakening the very legitimacy that courts depend on to function. Kansas’ current merit-based system was designed to avoid precisely this outcome. A...
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From the Kansas Reflector “Groups that oppose fully funding public education are also pushing for the amendment. Why these groups? You guessed it — because of a 2018 decision by the Kansas Supreme Court, in which the court held the state’s education funding plan was inadequate under our state constitution. These groups don’t want the courts to weigh in on public education funding at all. Instead of supporting public education, these groups want to divert state tax dollars to private and religious schools. As Republican gubernatorial candidate Ty Masterson told a group of Republicans in November, according to...
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