Kansas has been falling behind on funding for mandatory special education services and any State Board of Education or other candidates claiming otherwise are either uninformed or misleading you. We need electeds who will work to fix this and provide every student with the staffing and services they need From...
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Do Your Legislators Support Vouchers?
Legislators and candidates who claim to support vouchers (whether they say tax credit scholarships, ESAs or some other made up reference to helping kids in so-called failing schools) and claim to support public education are either being dishonest or willfully ignorant. There will be a renewed effort to pass vouchers...
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We survived another #kslegafterdark and it went better than they usually do! We know we had a lot of team members in the Capitol and watching online into the early hours of Saturday. The legislature is on break until they come back for the veto session April 25. The education...
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No comments Kansas ‘Flat Tax Bill’ dead after Governor’s veto is sustained in the House
The attempt to override Governor Kelly’s veto of the flat tax bill failed 81-42. (It takes 84 votes to override.) We oppose the flat tax bill because it is too large of a tax cut with too much of the benefit going to the wealthiest Kansans. The average Kansan would...
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