Kansas Parents Worry Schools Are Slipping Amid Budget Battles

[Fenton]

You calling out a partisan hack thread is ****ing hilarious.

It is a hack partisan thread

A few years ago there was a huge cheating scandal in Atlanta that lead to thousands of Kids being passed on for graduation even though they were essentially illiterate

Detroit school teachers are paid above the National average but Detroit kids score way below the average

But for some reason you people are obsessed with Kansas

 

[azgreg]

It is a hack partisan thread

A few years ago there was a huge cheating scandal in Atlanta that lead to thousands of Kids being passed on for graduation even though they were essentially illiterate

Detroit school teachers are paid above the National average but Detroit kids score way below the average

But for some reason you people are obsessed with Kansas

Quite possibly, however you calling out a partisan thread is ****ing priceless.

 

[JANFU]

It is a hack partisan thread

A few years ago there was a huge cheating scandal in Atlanta that lead to thousands of Kids being passed on for graduation even though they were essentially illiterate

Detroit school teachers are paid above the National average but Detroit kids score way below the average

But for some reason you people are obsessed with Kansas

Nope- Just that the Gov kept on with a plan that was not working. Same as in Louisiana which is another mess. 1 reason I liked Kasich.

 

[SenorXm/Sirius]

Once the public schools close what Kansas will probably do is offer every student a waiver to attend private schools.

Because 2 very rich men, the Koch brothers, and Brownback do not want public schools in Kansas. 3 men total, 2 of them not even elected officials don't want public schools so the schools may have to close down.

The Koch's want to de-fund, and destroy public schools. And because many Republican voters care more about gay marriage then they do educating their kids, the Koch's will end up doing it. But what do they care? Their kids, like most rich's kids don't go to public schools anyway.

 

[ALiberalModerate]

How the hell did he get re-elected? Did the Democrats just not run?

I live here, well just 2 miles into Kansas on the Kansas side of the Kansas City Metro. Brownback won reelection because Kansas is a very, very red state and all the nutjobs and fundies came out to vote for him. The Democrats ran a good candidate against him, but it just wasn't enough to overcome the fact the state's electorate is so red.

The state's budget situation is a mess. We had competitive tax rates before Brownback slashed them. When you govern a state where much of your residents live in your state, but work in the neighboring state, it is fiscally disastrous to cut your already competitive tax to levels lower than the state where many of your residents work because it will only result in none of those residents paying anything into your state.

My wife and I both work in Missouri. Since Brownback's cuts, neither of us pay a cent in income taxes to the state of Kansas because our Missouri taxes exceed our Kansas tax liabilities. Great for Missouri, but terrible for Kansas.

 

[JANFU]

I live here, well just 2 miles into Kansas on the Kansas side of the Kansas City Metro. Brownback won reelection because Kansas is a very, very red state and all the nutjobs and fundies came out to vote for him. The Democrats ran a good candidate against him, but it just wasn't enough to overcome the fact the state's electorate is so red.

The state's budget situation is a mess. We had competitive tax rates before Brownback slashed them. When you govern a state where much of your residents live in your state, but work in the neighboring state, it is fiscally disastrous to cut your already competitive tax to levels lower than the state where many of your residents work because it will only result in none of those residents paying anything into your state.

My wife and I both work in Missouri. Since Brownback's cuts, neither of us pay a cent in income taxes to the state of Kansas because our Missouri taxes exceed our Kansas tax liabilities. Great for Missouri, but terrible for Kansas.

The problem escalated to this level when the Governor should have been aware the cuts were not performing as expected and corrected them. That was in all probability known before the last election.
Go a little south and see the mess that Jindal left behind.

 

[Carjosse]

The problem escalated to this level when the Governor should have been aware the cuts were not performing as expected and corrected them. That was in all probability known before the last election.
Go a little south and see the mess that Jindal left behind.

Except it is very hard to correct tax cuts, taxes are easy to cut but but incredibly difficult to raise.

 

[JANFU]

Except it is very hard to correct tax cuts, taxes are easy to cut but but incredibly difficult to raise.

Elected again in 2014, could have done it after he was elected.

 

[azgreg]

Except it is very hard to correct tax cuts, taxes are easy to cut but but incredibly difficult to raise.

Only for politicians who are only concerned about getting re-elected. Those who are more concerned about governing can do it easily.

 

[Patrickt]

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Just another example of incompetence and treating the children of poor families as 2nd class citizens.
Looks like he will have trouble in the next election.
From tax cuts that were a disaster, to this. Why do Republicans insist on tax cuts that do not generate the expected revenue? And this was year after year. And what did they do, continued down the same path.
Expected job growth is lagging.

Links to cuts and revenues.
Kansas’s tax cut disaster explained in five charts - Think NC First

These Kansans predicted Gov. Brownback’s tax-cut disaster exactly four years ago

These Kansans predicted Gov. Brownback’s tax-cut disaster exactly four years ago | The Kansas City Star

Brownback signs large state tax cut | CJOnline.com

We all know there is a direct correlation between money spent and quality of education. That's why the schools in New York City, Washington DC, and Chicago, Ill, are so gosh-darned excellent. Reforms in the system? Bite your tongue. The only solution is...spend more money. Not spending more money means, for socialists, you hate children.

Why is it the only solution socialists have for a problem is to raise taxes and spend more money?
The concept of pouring money down a rat hole is something they've never considered.

 

[Fruityfact]

Why is it the only solution socialists have for a problem is to raise taxes and spend more money?
The concept of pouring money down a rat hole is something they've never considered.

This is what I call deflecting.

 

[Patrickt]

This is what I call deflecting.

See. Consistently wrong.

 

[JANFU]

We all know there is a direct correlation between money spent and quality of education. That's why the schools in New York City, Washington DC, and Chicago, Ill, are so gosh-darned excellent. Reforms in the system? Bite your tongue. The only solution is...spend more money. Not spending more money means, for socialists, you hate children.

Why is it the only solution socialists have for a problem is to raise taxes and spend more money?
The concept of pouring money down a rat hole is something they've never considered.

Standards of education should be the same in each school.

 

[Fruityfact]

See. Consistently wrong.

What can I say, people deserve what the vote for, good or bad.
Before deflecting and complaining about other states, one should recognize that Kansas does have a problem, one that is tied to its tax cuts.