As the House K-12 Education Budget Committee attempts to include a bullying voucher in its school funding bill, we take a look at the tax credit scholarship voucher-in-disguise program already in existence. It appears largely to be the Kansas Subsidizing Religious Education program. The top Scholarship Granting Organizations are the Catholic Education Foundation with 436 eligible students, Support for Catholic Schools with 105 eligible students, Christian Faith Centre, Inc. (from its Facebook “exists to recruit, retain, and develop people into the full knowledge of Jesus Christ and to empower them to live a spiritually, emotionally, financially, and physically...
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Think tank proponents testifying, but not Kansans
This could generally be said about bills and policies not supporting Kansas public education in the Kansas legislature this year. “‘I don’t see a Kansas version of Janus sitting here before us today telling us why we need to change the laws,’ Holland said. ‘I see a number of conservative think tanks funded by Koch Industries that tell us why we need to change the laws. So where are the Kansas workers today telling us we need to change the laws?’ “Trabert said constitutional rights protect KPI from disclosing its donors but that the organization is funded by...
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Leave a Comment Landwehr lashes out at advocate, Game On opposes process and plan
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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Leave a Comment 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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