There goes another grift.
Kansas officials have discovered an error in a public school funding billâŚ
Well, thatâs what happens when you cut public school funding.
This is whatâs the matter with Kansas.
âItâs disappointing. Itâs frustrating. Itâs maddening,â [Rep. Melissa Rooker] said. âItâs a giant mess.â
Hmm. Sounds like the Kansas Visitors Bureau just scored a new slogan.
Iâm thinking they get âphatâ to show the millenialls how âhepâ they really are and distill it to ID IF IM A GM!â˘
Fair Warning: Donât screw with my trademark, Kansas Visitors Bureau. When challenged I can be more doggedly litigious than Michael Cohen pursuing another failed legal strategy.
Perhaps the Kansas Legislature needs legislative analysts to review bills. Maybe they should read bills before sending them to the governor? What kind of a country is this when no one reads entire bills and has no idea what is in them, like Congress? Is this country really this stupid? Rhetorical question.
Arithmetic was a victim of Brownbackâs educational budget cuts.
âKansas officials have discovered an error in a public school funding bill lawmakers approved that lowers the size of its spending increase by at least $80 millionâŚâ
âAn AP analysis of the bill also found that teachers now count for salary purposes as three-fifths of a person; that children in the bottom quartile of achievement tests are to be sold annually for medical experiments; and that several new courses mandated include âOur Friend Coalâ, âFox Rocksâ, and âWhy G-d Hates Scienceâ.â
âRepublican Gov. Jeff Colyer still plans to sign the bill, calling these revelations, âsimple clerical errorsâ.â
Perhaps the Kansas Legislature needs legislative analysts to review bills.
I suspect all of their legislation is reviewed, if not written, by ALEC. It wouldnât surprise me if this âoutsourcingâ wasnât the cause of this âerror.â
Why are you or they surprised? They worship to the monument of conservative stupidity.
We are not in Kansas and we are thankful.
There are so many school funding causes right now âŚ
But I can appreciate that folks want to pay less property tax âŚ
It shouldnât boil down to a choice of what to pay for âŚ
Food ⌠taxes âŚutilities ⌠health care âŚ
Especially for lower income people â
Why should anyone need to choose between paying their taxes and ⌠say âŚ
getting some badly needed tires for their vehicle ? ? âŚ
Thatâs just not right ! â
It would be nice if AP gave some kind of context, eg that that budget is about $6K per student all inclusive of buildings and transport and pensions, rather than just tossing out the $4B as if it were some arbitrary number a court had come up with. Kansas is about even with Utah, and 1/3 of new york state, which includes a lot of districts very like Kansas.
Besides, history and science, Republicans donât believe in math either. Some of them can only count the bribes they accept from the Koch Brothers and Russians.
You are undoubtedly correct.