Not just Kansas schools take a financial blow but the poorest of Kansas schools, at that:
Federal cuts announced for poorest Kansas schools
From the article:
School districts across the state received word Thursday of significant cuts to federal funding reserved for the highest-poverty schools.
What stuns me, besides the cuts in funding, is how this is even legal.Forget that it's immoral and nearly unconscionable, how is this legal given that "separate but equal" was ruled patently unconstitutional, so many years ago?
In this case I'm not talking about schools for blacks vs. schools for whites, as the original Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education court ruling came out, I'm talking about schools for wealthy vs. schools for the poor. That's what this seems to be also, further setting up, just as the school vouchers would, if we implement them.
You can't have one set of schools well-funded and the others stripped of that same equal level of funding. That's not just immoral, it's obscene and it should absolutely be illegal.
It just keeps getting worse over there in Kansas. First the governor gives tax breaks to the corporations and wealthy, then he and too many Republicans in Topeka propose raising the sales tax to make up for lost revenue which would nothing but hurt the poor and middle class, now this.
No one's going to WANT to be in Kansas, Dorothy.
And in the meantime, Representatives are trying to add in money for golf tournaments for themselves but no new, additional money for schools, yes they are:
Bring home the bacon: Budget funds staff hikes, golf events
I'm trying to decide if it's ignorance, stupidity or greed that's the source here. Regardless, chutzpah is definitely involved.
