While citizens need to be civil to legislators, legislators should also be respectful of the citizens who come to the Capitol. The legislature has been in session for two months, and now the House K-12 Education Budget Committee has given about 24 hours notice for the submission of testimony on two different very important education bills. The first one was 61 pages and was introduced while many of the state’s public education supporters were on spring break. If that was not intentional, it was at least disrespectful of the rights of citizens to participate in the process. We...
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KASB’s Tallman shows funding matters in new report
KASB’s Mark Tallman has a new post on the history of Kansas educational outcomes and funding. He concludes, yes, funding does matter. We ask why we keep having to answer that question. https://kasb.org/blog/school-finance-questions-student-outcomes-followed-changes-in-funding/ Originally posted on Facebook 3/21/19...
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Leave a Comment 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 needed to just get the bills out of...
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Leave a Comment KNEA provides update on action in House K-12 Education Budget Committee
This is a very helpful summary of what happened in the House K-12 Education Budget Committee yesterday. Please contact your representative and tell him or her to vote no on House Sub HB 2395 and House Sub SB 16. These bills take us in the wrong direction and further from ending the Gannon litigation. Instead they should be supporting the governor’s plan for funding our schools, which has passed the Senate but was voted down by the committee yesterday. If you don’t know who your representative is, you can use this link: www.ksleglookup.org. They plan to debate these...
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