Tag: Melissa Rooker
Female Kansas Mod Laments Left’s “Ugly Campaign”
In a Pitch article that gets almost everything wrong, former Kansas City Starreporter Barbara Shelly allows moderate Republican Representative Melissa…
Merriam Dem: Lawmakers Are Constitutionally Obligated to Fund Schools, Not Roads
Schools need to be priority one, Rep. Jarrod Ousley, a Merriam Democrat, told a meeting of several Johnson County lawmakers…
New Spending Should Help Schools, But There’s No Guarantee, Researcher Tells Lawmakers
Jesse Levin, a researcher at the American Institutes for Research, told legislators on Thursday that an education study they commissioned…
Lawmakers Forward $500M Education Plan Likely To Require Tax Increases
A committee of lawmakers forwarded a proposal that would increase school funding by about $500 million over the next 5…
House Committee Finalizes School Funding Bill
Members of the Kansas House K-12 Budget education grappled with a school funding proposal for a few hours on Wednesday.…
What Arm Twisting, KCUR?
KCUR’s Sam Zeff reports that legislators resorted to strong-arm tactics to secure votes for a House K-12 Budget Committee school…
Three Day School Funding Hearing Ends
Lawmakers in the Kansas House wrapped up hearings on a school funding proposal on March 27. HB2410 would funnel an…