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Renewables portfolio standard: Good or bad for the Kansas economy?
Read more: Renewables portfolio standard: Good or bad for the Kansas economy?A report submitted to the Kansas Legislature claims the Kansas economy benefits from the state’s Renewables Portfolio Standard, but an economist presented testimony rebutting the key points in the report.
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Taxpayer-funded lobbying discussed
Read more: Taxpayer-funded lobbying discussedThe Sedgwick County Commission passed a resolution expressing the commission’s opposition to a bill under consideration in the Kansas Legislature on taxpayer-funded lobbying.
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Downtown Wichita economic development numbers questioned
Read more: Downtown Wichita economic development numbers questionedWichita needs to be concerned why the city’s political and bureaucratic leadership is not “forthcoming and honest” with citizens regarding economic development results.
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Common core standards: Can a state escape?
Read more: Common core standards: Can a state escape?Robert Scott, former Texas Education Commissioner, told a Kansas panel about the experience of Texas when it resisted adopting the Common Core Standards.
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In Kansas, arguing about the wrong school issues
Read more: In Kansas, arguing about the wrong school issuesIn Kansas, we argue about school spending issues rather than relying on natural market forces.
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Kansas and Texas schools and low-income students
Read more: Kansas and Texas schools and low-income studentsIf you were the parent of a low-income student, or a student who is a member of an ethnic minority group, in which state would you rather have your child attend school: Kansas or Texas?
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Taxpayer-funded lobbying in Kansas
Read more: Taxpayer-funded lobbying in KansasLocal governmental units in Kansas that use taxpayer-funded lobbyists should leverage that expense by making the lobbyists’ work easily available to taxpayers.
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Suitable education in Kansas
Read more: Suitable education in KansasThe Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from those supporting an amendment to the Kansas Constitution regarding school finance.
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Do not criticize the Wichita school board. It’s disrespectful.
Read more: Do not criticize the Wichita school board. It’s disrespectful.After directing a uniformed security guard to station himself near a citizen speaker, Wichita school board president Betty Arnold told the audience: “If we need to clear the room, we will clear the room. This board meeting is being held in public, but it is not for the public, or of the public.”
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Open records in Kansas
Read more: Open records in KansasKansas has a weak open records law. Wichita doesn’t want to follow the law, as weak as it is.
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Wichita school board candidates on spending
Read more: Wichita school board candidates on spendingAt a forum for candidates for the board of USD 259, the Wichita public school district, several candidates showed they were not informed on the level of school spending.
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Youth unemployment: It’s a problem
Read more: Youth unemployment: It’s a problemTerence Grado of Generation Opportunity calls in to the Joseph Ashby Show to discuss the problems that America’s youth face.