Kansas school voucher bill tied to teacher pay increases, SPED funding
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Kansas school voucher bill tied to teacher pay increases, SPED funding

Public education supporters packed into a House K-12 Education Budget committee meeting Monday as representatives gutted SB 83 and inserted the contents of a similar, controversial education savings account bill.

Kansas Household Republicans on Monday superior a deeply controversial bill that could reshape the state’s public-personal K-12 education and learning procedure but not just before attaching a couple products that, for many years, have been on Democrats’ would like-checklist for colleges.

The House K-12 Education Finances Committee on Monday labored and innovative SB 83. Originally a Senate Education Committee bill on expansion of tax credit scholarships for very low-money learners, the Property committee “gutted” the contents of SB 83 and changed with them with HB 2218, which would generate a voucher-like education price savings account program.

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Dubbed the Sunflower Schooling Equity Act, the law would make it possible for Kansas people to use taxpayer pounds to spend for non-community educational costs, these types of as non-public college or other academic services and supplies.