We testified in the K-12 Education Budget Committee hearing yesterday on a bill (HB 2594) to create a new task force to study education funding in preparation for the sunset of the current formula in 2027 and to abolish the current special education task force. We and other conferees opposed...
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Top Republican refuses to hold Special Education Task Force meeting, despite mandate
There are two reasons to convene the task force. First is to demonstrate the need for adequate SPED funding. The second is to vet any plans to change it. Rep. Williams has made clear she would prefer to count the funding differently and/or change the formula. She should not be...
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No comments Legislators looking to model Kansas ESAs after Arizona’s controversial program
The interim education committee meetings made clear that ESAs, with Arizona’s program as a model, will be coming back to the Kansas legislature in 2024. Watch this video to see why this is a terrible idea and why we will ask legislators why they’re ignoring the obvious problems with these...
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No comments Interim Committee Discussion of Special Education Plagued with Inaccuracies
In today’s education interim committee meeting, they addressed special education. It is a complex topic, and the confusion among the committee members showed that this would have been better handled by the task force created by the Kansas legislature last session. At the end of today’s meeting, we had one...
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