Today’s House K-12 Education Budget Committee meeting promises to be interesting. Watch on YouTube here: They’re starting by amending HB 2068 (tax credit scholarship bill) into HB 2119 (even worse ESA bill). Originally posted to Facebook 2/25/2021....
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ESAs are for Special Interest, NOT Kansas Students’ Best Interest
Take a look at the proponents and opponents for HB 2119, the massive Education Savings Account (voucher) bill that passed out of the House K-12 Education Budget Committee last week and will probably head to the floor of the House soon. Are our legislators listening to free-market lobbyists and religious...
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No comments February Voucher-palooza
It was voucher-palooza in the Kansas legislature today. The Senate passed the tax credit scholarship, and the House K-12 Education Budget Committee passed the massive Education Savings Account bill. They improved it slightly by removing homeschools from participation and by requiring students to be current public school students rather than...
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No comments HB 2119 – Ed Savings Accts – Who Supports and Who Opposes?
This photo is from our last walk to Topeka in 2016 when Kansans sick of years of legislators who listened to Koch-funded lobbyists more than their own constituents on education and tax policy made their voices heard. Yesterday, we were reminded of those days as we testified against HB 2119,...
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