Iowa and Kansas are facing a major push to send tax dollars to private schools without imposing standards on those schools. Read one Iowa mom’s perspective. “I cannot stand by and be silent when it is proposed that tax dollars be taken away from my son’s only choice in education...
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Public Money is for PUBLIC Goods
This post is from Iowa, but we agree with the sentiment. The Kansas House K-12 Education Budget will be hearing HB 2119, an Education Savings Account bill, on Monday, February 8th. We plan to be there to tell them our members believe public money should be for public schools, not...
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No comments PolicyWatch Report: NC Voucher Program Damaging Public Schools
Article Top Line: “New report says “Opportunity Scholarship” voucher programs undermine public education, foster division, and undermine children’s development while also costing the state millions.” We fully expect to see efforts to expand Kansas’s tax credit scholarship program and launch other voucher schemes. We continue to watch other states and...
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Some people say Kansas should be more like Florida when it comes to education policy. We disagree. Here’s another example of why. “A new Pine Hills private school led by the 23-year-old daughter of a woman who was banned from Florida’s school voucher programs may be allowed to accept those...
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