Author: Dave Trabert
KASB hits new low, trying to explain away achievement declines
A new flyer from the Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) would be right at home as satire at The…
Government officials should be honest about job growth
Americans are accustomed to politicians embellishing their records, but some of the false claims about job growth are downright shameful.…
State school board member misrepresents SEL position
At the August board meeting, state school board member Ann Mah misrepresented a social-emotional learning (SEL) statement she attributed to…
Wichita superintendent Kelly Bielefeld covers up poor student achievement
USD 259 superintendent Kelly Bielefeld spoke to the Wichita Pachyderm Club recently, and like his predecessors, he went out of…
Mesha Mainor refuses to use the poor and minorities for political gain
Hypocrisy – claiming to have beliefs to which one’s behavior does not conform – has long been a defining characteristic…
Stand Up Blue Valley misleads followers about misleading voters
Sometimes, understanding what someone avoids saying is more telling than how they respond to an issue, which is certainly the…
2023 Freedom Index shows liberty is not a red or blue issue
Seventy-three of the 165 Kansas House and Senate members scored better than 85% on the 2023 Kansas Freedom Index, including Wyandotte County…
2023 state assessment results reflect Einstein’s definition of insanity
The preliminary 2023 state assessment results once again demonstrate that student achievement will remain stubbornly low until the Legislature steps…
Stand Up Blue Valley misleads voters on school board elections
Stand Up Blue Valley, a lobbying group that primarily works to elect legislators who will vote to raise taxes and…
Missouri needs the revenue-neutral Truth in Taxation Act
The Jackson County (Missouri) Assessor’s office is taking a lot of heat for property tax increases over the last several…
SMSD used $4 million extra at-risk state aid to boost SPED cash reserves
The Kansas Legislature provides over $500 million of at-risk funding to deliver services to students at risk of academic failure.[i] …
KSDE deceives school districts on efficiency and achievement
Imagine 100 students take a test where Johnnie gets a C and only four students had higher grades. That puts…
Education officials top the 2022 KPERS ‘millionaires’ list
Data provided by the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System shows Kansas has 3,778 KPERS ‘millionaires’ – state and local government…
Districts continue to ignore the school needs assessment law
For the third consecutive year, a review of 25 school districts’ adherence to the school needs assessment law underscores why…
Former Lansing school board member misleads community on revenue neutral
Former USD 469 Lansing school board member Beth Stevenson is telling the community that holding revenue neutral on local property…
Prairie Village, other JoCo residents reject expensive taxpayer-funded community center
Prairie Village Mayor Eric Mikkelson and most City Council members are promoting a new taxpayer-funded community center that would replace…
Kansas expands school choice / tax credit scholarship program in SB 113
Next year a lot more students will be eligible to participate in the tax credit scholarship program with Governor Kelly…
KS Reflector columnist defends bureaucracy with false achievement claims
A guest columnist for the Kansas Reflector wants you to believe that the public school bureaucracy is producing high achievement,…
KS Governor Laura Kelly vetos tax relief worth $244 million in SB 8
As if taking away $1.4 billion in tax relief from Kansans wasn’t bad enough, Governor Laura Kelly today vetoed Senate…
Petty politics prevented $1.4 billion in tax relief in Kansas
Virtually every effort to provide state tax relief over the last ten years was met with the ‘Don’t Be Like…
Employment falls in Laura Kelly’s tax-and-spend economy
The March jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows Governor Laura Kelly’s tax-and-spend economy lost 4,800 private-sector jobs…
Flat tax in SB 169 is good for Kansas taxpayers
by Grover Norquist and Dave Trabert It was clear from the very beginning. Despite winning reelection on a message of…
Gov. Kelly’s false claims in veto of income, property, and sales tax relief
It’s no secret that Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is a tax-and-spender — spending has jumped 31% since she took office…
Kelly vetoes bills that protect women and children
If there was ever any doubt about Kansas Governor Laura Kelly being “middle of the road,” as she claimed in…