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Educrats fear the coming of ESAs, educational freedom 0
- Education, Uncategorized
- March 1, 2023
Apparently there is considerable internet “chatter” in response to a blog that I wrote for KPI last week. The piece was in response to a vote to close a KCMO charter school due to poor performance. The “chatter” is in regard to the line, “Ultimately, all publicly-funded schools need to be held to the same
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Streamlining State Regulations: A Review of State Legislative Proposals 0
- Tax & Spending Research, Uncategorized
- February 4, 2022
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KPI submits letter urging Gov. Kelly to provide relief to property taxpayers 0
- Uncategorized
- June 10, 2020
Dear Governor Kelly, As I’m sure you know, Kansans have been hit with enormous property tax increases over the last twenty years. Property tax on real estate jumped 222% since 1997, which is more than four times the rate of inflation, and Kansas now has some of the highest effective property tax rates in the
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Who is Mark Janus?0
- Uncategorized
- February 11, 2020
This week, Mark Janus is visiting the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka to share his story. On June 27, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case, Janus v. AFSCME, that every public worker has a constitutional right to resign from a union whenever they want. Mark was a State of Illinois employee who disagreed
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LeBron’s “I Promise” school – a model Kansas should emulate 0
- Education, Uncategorized
- August 19, 2018
There will be no mention of basketball in this essay despite the fact that as a Phoenix Suns fan throughout my adult life, nothing could be worse than LeBron James joining the despicable, hated Los Angeles Lakers. (If there any Suns fans out there, you know exactly what I’m talking about.) Ok, that’s the only
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The Case for a Constitutional Amendment on School Funding 0
- Uncategorized
- July 16, 2018
The Kansas Supreme Court’s latest ruling that a six-year, $854-million funding increase is inadequate has renewed talk of amending the constitution, and that has evoked emotional responses from opponents. Some proponents have even been accused of being anti-education and ignoring the rule of law. Blanket charges of that nature are neither fair nor accurate; everyone
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