Urge your House Representative to vote NO on the flat tax. They’ve held no committee hearings on it this year, but they already rammed the flat tax through the Senate and we expect the House to vote on it today. The flat tax benefits wealthy Kansans the most and will...
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Kansas legislative leaders have chosen course of maximum confrontation, extremism
Please read this whole editorial to understand what we’re up against and what we could have if we had different people in charge of the legislature. “This month, the Kansas Chamber, the main representative of Koch interests and a major player in Kansas politics, released its legislative priorities — its...
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No comments Special Ed Task Force finally meets, recommends phased-in funding increase
The Special Education and Related Services Funding Task Force voted to recommend the adoption of the Kansas State Board of Education’s plan for a phased-in increase to special education fund…The four Republican legislators on the task force all voted against increasing special education funding but were outnumbered by the rest...
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No comments Kansas special education task force to convene — finally — for quick study of funding shortfall
This article provides helpful background to the SPED task force meeting that was held today. “The goal of the task force, required by a bill approved by the 2023 Legislature, was to figure out how best to comply with an older statute mandating that state funding cover 92% of the...
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