24 hours to submit testimony on a huge education bill that would make numerous changes to current funding and policy while many of the Kansas public education stakeholders are on spring break. This is not how a government of the people should conduct itself. Originally posted on Facebook 3/14/19...
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Bills offer vastly different approaches
We support the Senate bill and vehemently oppose the bill being considered by the House K-12 Education Budget Committee. “Meanwhile, school officials and education advocates pleaded with lawmakers in the House to reject House Bill 2395, which would eliminate the final two years of planned increases while providing additional funding for at-risk students. “’This bill is loaded with policy that is going to cause nightmares for the state to defend,’ said Mark Desetti, a lobbyist for the Kansas National Education Association.”Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article227823934.html?fbclid=IwAR10SB7W1BhAoPcOt-mzGmkv_bPuvpDJErAPk0QkZXh1Y5xi9Ysb579xDKY#storylink=cpy Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article227823934.html?fbclid=IwAR10SB7W1BhAoPcOt-mzGmkv_bPuvpDJErAPk0QkZXh1Y5xi9Ysb579xDKY Originally posted on Facebook 3/15/19...
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Leave a Comment March 21, 2019 update
Update on the evening of Thursday, March 21st. The House K-12 Education Budget Committee met and promptly voted down the governor’s plan, which had already passed the Senate. They then voted to pass two bad bills. One essentially has much of the policy from HB 2395, and the other has their funding plan, which only includes two years of funding and omits the CPI adjustment moving forward. As Rep. Dietrich explained in moving to pass the second bill out (and we’re paraphrasing), the committee is stacked and they don’t have the votes to fix the bills so they...
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And they’re doing it again. They’ve started debate on House Substitute for SB 16 (the one with the rotten policy provisions) after 10 pm. You can follow along on Twitter or the live feed http://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/…/PowerBrow…/20190326/-1/6694…. #kslegafterdark Originally posted on Facebook 3/25/19...
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