It is not uncommon to see developments bearing the name of what they are having or sometimes destroying. Sub -divisions are likely not to contain names such as Wild Creek Place, the effect of the “wilderness” or the remains of the creek. I think more descriptive names such as the flat asphalt intersection simply lack the same level of appeal.
I came to see the names of the legislative committees in Kansas in the same way. According to the leadership of the superior conservatives in the legislative body, committees such as education (House of Representatives and the Senate), the education budget (House of Representatives), trade, economic development (House of Representatives), and local government, appear to be, for example, for example
Income taxes focus on the governor of Sam Brunpak to Safar, in addition to the legislation designed to weaken public services and control local government, aspects of the government itself. Certainly public education aims to be completed significantly, if not explicitly replacing it with private education.
We see this in other states as well. For some time now, typical legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALC), Americans for prosperity (AFP) and other liberation / superior organizations are used as a template for bills in states that have varying levels of superior control over the governor. Such templates have been developed on everything from taxes and financial policy, to energy and the environment, to health and humanitarian services.
Looking at education only, in 2015, 172 measures were presented in 42 states based on the legislation of ALEC model, According to the Center for Media and Democracy. The general goal is “… transforming public education from a public institution and accountability that serves the public in those that serve special interests for profit.” With public education usually includes a large part of the state budgets, this corresponds to well with high archive legislation that focuses on the government dramatically and reduces taxes.
In Kansas, one of the latest bills that are inspired by this typical legislation HB 2741It aims to provide the state in a new financing form for public schools. the Kansas Association for School Councils (KASB) provides a good summary of the draft law here. The need for a new formula began during the 2014-2015 legislative session with the cancellation of the formula for financing previous schools and the implementation of the temporary grant financing mechanism for two years, aimed at filling the gap while the legislative body works on a new formula. It should be noted that the block grant has also reduced the dollars available to the educational areas for daily operations.
HB 2741 It was presented shortly before the legislative break and is now sitting in the Credit Committee in the House of Representatives. One of the most controversial things that the draft law is to create the Freedom of Education Law in Kansas, as it established a special program for providing schools and transferring dollars in public schools already limited to private schools. Parents will be allowed to use 70 percent of government aid for each student to pay for private schools (including religious), online schools, home education or teachers.
Although the bill will require these students to provide “instructions in those articles required by the state law at least”, it does not require any kind of student assessments or accountability measures. Kansas State treasurer, not the Ministry of Education in Kansas, will be granted organizational supervision of both financial resources and academics related to the savings program in private schools.
These “accounts of freedom of education” carry as shown in the draft law a lot of similarity with aspects Alex’s educational savings account law Typical legislation. For example, the supervision of the treasurer follows the ALEC proposal that financial and academic supervision does not have to fall within the framework of the state administration responsible for education. The typical legislation determines this Ministry of Supervision as “the Ministry of Education for the state Or an organization chosen by the state [italics added]”
The declared purpose of HB 2747 It is the “provision of” education “. However, the draft law limits instructions” … educational boycott functions that directly affect the provision of educational services. The term “instructions” does not include the following educational boycott functions: Central Office Administration; Building capital improvement, rebuilding or rebuilding; Maintenance and repair of the facility; Buy and prepare food service;
While public government aid is increased to “education” activities under this draft law, they are reduced or eliminated in relation to the “non -cancellation” jobs mentioned above specifically. And in spite of analysis By kasb suggests HB 2747 Initially, it will be a 4 % increase in the state’s general aid on the mass grant (still is not enough and not more than the previous financing formula), after the “non -harmful” dollars disappear after two years, that will actually be a decrease. This provides the superior conservatives an opportunity to say that they have increased “educational” financing (important in the election year) while continuing to reduce the country’s total spending on public education (it is necessary if they will continue this crazy march to zero income taxes).
Reducing public spending on public education is a major goal for Alex and AFP, as well as the Kansas Policy Institute (KPI), a domestic manifestation of Kangasan for this conservative liberal / intellectual intellectual tradition. Determining “education” and “converting dollars to the semester in a narrow way” is a symbol to reduce total financing for daily public schools and was Common talk points From Brownback and the legislators missed the conservatives.
According to the bill, spending on the administration will be reduced, which is already Lack of financing. Public assistance to the state can no longer be used to finance extracurricular activities (local dollars only), which have been defined as “those activities provided or supported by a school area, but they are not required or a large part of any curriculum in this educational zone.” Athletics games will certainly achieve success, but it can be other activities such as the band, the choir, the discussion, the student council, or anything else with a component outside the curriculum, or reduce or eliminate Positive effects Such activities can be on students.
As with extracurricular activities, local dollars can only be used for food service or relevant activities, which may affect the quality and amount of food areas that serve them. but Mealsalong with The presence (and expected to be) a complete bellyIn fact, it affects the effectiveness of learning in the classroom. It is possible that the elimination of the financing of the general government aid for food service also endangering the local programs of the local farm as it has been implemented, not only negatively affecting students but also local economies.
The additional restrictions that were placed in capital improvement projects through A) the establishment of the joint committee to build a state building to review (and limit) projects that require the improvement of capital, b) a reduction in some cases, menstruation on government aid to areas not allocated to areas not allocated to special circumstances), the requirements of the economy allocated to students, as well as negative effects. By reducing government spending on capital improvement projects, the burden on this will be transferred to local communities, and the number and quality of projects will decrease.
A recent report from the USGBC Center for Green Schools has been summarized hereHe concluded that current spending levels are not already sufficient to meet modern standards and boycott needs for operations, maintenance, renovations and new construction. We still have a long way to cut it to recover from decades of postponed maintenance It can negatively affect the student’s productivity, teacher/performance and health, and thus the student’s success. This law will slow this recovery in Kansas.
Increasing the percentage of general education financing that local communities will have to present flies in the face of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in the last of the court’s minimum decision that the current block grant does not fund all educational areas. The richest areas have a greater possibility to raise local money for these “unspecified” jobs. So HB 2741 It does not seem closer to meeting these stock requirements than the mass grant.
It is interesting that actor Ron Hayland, the Republican, is one of the major authors in the draft law (and the other is Senator Steve Abrams, Republican), stated this. HB 2741 It includes recommendations of $ 2.6 million Efficiency study It was conducted by Alvarez Consulting Company. This is $ 2.6 million spending a study directed to reduce government spending; 2.6 million dollars spent by a country suffering from major problems in revenues that arise from dependence on the outdated and insecure policies that lead to revenue problems. Problems that could have been mainly solved by canceling the destroyed tax cuts of the ruler.
While some of the draft law does not derive from the recommendations of the study, none of the specific aspects that it covered here – converting public dollars to private schools and restricting the state dollars into a narrow definition of activities related to “education” – in fact in the recommendations of Alvarez and March (at least I can find them). But they are a reflection of the liberation and innate ideologies behind you, Agence France Presse and KPI. Although I do not think that MP Hayland and Senator Abrams are currently members of Alex (although many legislators in Kansas), they previously attended Alec events and sympathized with education agendas in public education in Alex, IFP and KPI.
It has been increasingly dark in Kansas since Brownback was elected in 2010. But Kansans began to wake up. Popular organizations such as Game on Kansas schoolsand Women Lingasand Moderate party in Kansasand The prevailing coalition Others raise their message throughout the state, and people listen. More and more Kansans are advancing to challenge these superior legislators in the elementary and public elections. I hope that after the autumn elections, the legislative scene in Kansas will change enough to stop progressing in the superficial work schedules; Perhaps, I dare to say, to form an alliance that resists the right to veto some issues. I also hope that the names of our legislative committee should not be a memorial of what is being displaced or destroyed.
By the way, HB 2741 Nomadic Establishing the financing law in the school area and the student success law. I believe Breaking public education, and increasing privatization, the success of the student was cursed He did not have the completely required ring. He was certainly more descriptive though.