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Under the Dome - February 21, 2012
House Education Committee amends licensure and evaluation bill; Senate Education Committee continues discussion on SB 361, finance bill; KPERS Committees moving off defined contribution, now thinking "cash balance"
Under the Dome - February 20, 2012
House Education Committee to vote on teacher licensure and evaluation tomorrow morning; Senate Education Committee begins work on Governor's school finance bill; House Education Budget Committee holds four hearings; House tax committee passes bill eliminating income tax, devastating highway program
Under the Dome - February 17, 2012
Work continues on teacher evaluation changes; Incentive Pay, Evalulation Criteria, Student assignment Teachers (and only teachers) Gulty until proven innocent!; Vote NO on HB 2634; Contact the Committee members
Under the Dome - February 16, 2012
Proposed House Ed bill strips teachers of the right to negotiate evaluation issues, establishes state evaluation system based on student test scores, supervisor and parent input
Under the Dome - February 15, 2012
House Education Committee hears financial literacy bill; Tax Committee hearings; Senate Education deals with bullying bill; Kansans United in Voice and Spirit Rally draws big crowd
Under the Dome - February 14, 2012
Committee sends seclusion and restraint bill to full House; House Education listens to Kansas Policy Institute-endorsed teacher quality group; Senate Tax Committee begins hearing Governor's tax proposal; Senate Committee begins work on Career and Technical Education proposal
Under the Dome - February 13, 2012
Your almost daily KPERS update; Dyslexia back in Senate Education Committee
Under the Dome - February 10, 2012
KNEA staff, members front and center in the Capital and the Media; School Finance; Career and Technical Education; Teacher licensure/Educator evaluation; Education Policy; Tax Policy; Protecting students; In the media
Under the Dome - February 9, 2012
House Education hears Governor's teacher licensure and educator evaluation proposal; Senate Education Committee holds hearing on Democrats' school finance bill; KPERS testimony in the Senate; Teachers making their voices heard in support of KPERS; KNEA appears in opposition to the Governor's proposal on tax "reform"
Under the Dome - February 8, 2012
House Education Committee hears Governor's Career and Technical Education bill; Legislative Post Audit Committee receives new report; Senate Education Committee takes up teacher licensure, educator evaluation components of SB 361
Under the Dome - February 7, 2012
KPERS Update; House Education hears bill on compulsory attendance; Third grade retention bill still up for changes; Senate Education hears Governor's Career and Technical Education proposal
Under the Dome - February 6, 2012
Hearings begin on Governor's school finance proposal; Lots more to be heard in Committees this week
Under the Dome - February 2, 2012
Commissioner DeBacker at House Education Committee; School Finance gets going in the Senate Education Committee
Under the Dome - February 1, 2012
New bills in the Capitol: School Finance and Charter Schools
Under the Dome - January 31, 2012
Third grade retention subcommittee meets; Expansion of bullying law draws a big crowd;Military second count date gets hearing
Under the Dome - January 30, 2012
KPERS work starts in earnest; Third grade retention subcommittee resurrected; School spending discussed in House Ed Budget Committee
Under the Dome - January 26, 2012
Governor's Career and Technical Education, Teacher Evaluation plans meet the House Committee on Education
Under the Dome - January 25, 2012
Governor's School Finance Bill introduced; KPERS Committee endorses working after retirement bill
Under the Dome - January 24, 2012
Schools present innovative programs to Education Committee; New KPERS Executive Director chosen; House Tax Committee hears bill to adjust mill levies if valuations increase
Under the Dome - January 20, 2012
Senate Tax Commission meets again (Public testimony day); Meanwhile...over in the House (O'Neal, Carlson float new House Republican tax proposal)
Under the Dome - January 19, 2012
House Ed in "reform" talks; Senate Education Committee moves bills; Arthur Laffer comes in to defend Brownback's income tax elimination plan; KPERS still being discussed
Under the Dome - January 18, 2012
Still getting briefed on the Governor's tax plan; Will "Politics" be the biggest issue in this session?
Under the Dome - January 17, 2012
Governor's tax plan still being shared; KPERS Commission report making the rounds; Kansas Teacher of the Year Team to the Education Committees: Real life isn't a test
Under the Dome - January 14, 2012
Senate Tax Study Commission begins work; Representative Ed Trimmer on the KPERS Commission Report
Under the Dome - January 12, 2012
Governor Brownback's State of the State Address; Rep. Paul Davis' Democratic Response; Kansas Action for Children Press Release ("Children Shortchanged in Governor's Budget"); Kansas Tax Facts (Kansas Legislative Research Department)
Under the Dome - January 11, 2012
State Board fails to adopt motion on Governor's school finance plan; House Pensions Committee meets for briefing on Commission recommendations; Relatively light legislative day in lead-up to tonight's State of the State Address
Under the Dome - January 10, 2012
Democrats roll out school finance plan - Vastly different from Governor's plan; Governor releases new proposal on Career and Technical Education
Under the Dome - January 9, 2012
The only thing currently standing between our public schools and the de-funding state services agenda is a coalition of traditional Republican and moderate Democratic Senators.
Under the Dome - December 14, 2011
The Brownback school finance plan shared at State Board - KNEA reviews the plan
Under the Dome - December 9, 2011
KPERS Commission recommends dismantling dependable retirement -- Retirees get coal for Christmas
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