Governor Colyer Gives His State of the State Address He’s not staking out a solid position on school funding Governor Jeff Colyer addressed a joint meeting of the House and Senate yesterday to outline his vision for...
Read MoreThe House Federal and State Affairs Committee today held a hearing on HB 2460, a bill that would allow school districts to offer firearms safety programs. The bill specifies that such programs in grades K-8 would be based on the...
Read MoreVouchers disguised as “scholarships?” The House has a voucher bill, introduced in the Appropriations Committee by Rep. Brenda Landwehr (R-Wichita). This bill called the “Kansas Empowerment Scholarship Act, HB 2609,...
Read MoreWay back when we reported here that Attorney General Derek Schmidt appeared before the House K-12 Education Budget Committee and urged them to finish their response to the Gannon school finance decision by March 1. Under the...
Read MoreFood Sales Tax Proposal We started the day in the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee where there was a hearing on Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 1604, a constitutional amendment sponsored by Senators Holland,...
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