The funds should not have been withheld in the first place, but we are relieved they’re now being released. “President Donald Trump’s administration announced Friday it was releasing billions of dollars in school grants, including about $43 million that had been withheld in Kansas… “The Trump administration had come under...
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State education board seeks to restore school security grants
Towards the end of this year’s session, the legislature rejected the State Board of Education request to continue to provide funding for security grants and instead gave the Attorney General’s office money to be used for video gun detection program no districts requested. The SBOE is now requesting the legislature...
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No comments Trump freezes federal education funds
The Trump administration, on almost no notice, is witholding billions of dollars of Congressionally appropriated funds from public schools. This is wrong on so many levels. School districts can’t just decide to raise prices and contracts to provide services have likely already been signed. This is cruel politics and is...
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No comments PAC’s continue to target school boards using culture wars
In case you thought the assault on our school boards was over, Ryan Girdusky, the New Yorker who leads a PAC using culture war issues to take over school boards is coming to Kansas this month. The filing deadline for nonpartisan school board races is today at noon. The following...
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