Remember when our children’s education was sacrificed for a tax cut experiment that was doomed to fail? We do. Here’s an article we shared back in 2015. Ty Masterson actually wrote that tax plan, then voted for it, and then voted to sustain the veto override of the sustainable tax...
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Disinformation and School Spending
Facts regarding school expenditures. Don’t fall for disinformation on this important topic. From Kansas Association of School Boards “FACT CHECK FRIDAY: Where does school funding go? A common misconception is that the majority of school funding goes toward administrative costs. In reality, instruction and teacher salaries account for 59.2% of...
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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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Are candidates in your area claiming schools don’t need more special education funding or failing to acknowledge that as they increased general ed funding they have been significantly falling behind in SPED funding which affects all students? From Kansas Association of School Boards: FACT CHECK FRIDAY: “A puzzle isn’t complete...
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