Proposed legislation to allow state tax dollars for parents to send at- risk students to private schools is a disaster trying to happen. Enacting the Student Empowerment Act would shift the foundation of Kansas public education. If parents were allowed to claim the per-pupil base state aid ...

Conservative politicians across America are promoting state-level legislation aimed at preventing new wind farms from being built in their states. In Kansas, a conservative legislator from urban Johnson County has proposed three bills that would make it difficult to impossible to expand the ...

The Kansas Legislature has passed a new congressional district map reflecting population changes, as it must every 10 years. While a veto by Gov. Laura Kelly, further tweaking in the Legislature and lawsuits over racial representation are all likely, the general outlines of this proposed map ...

“When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was the promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be ...

As the 2022 legislative session kicks off this week all eyes are on Topeka. It’s an election year and the issues tackled this session will have a huge impact on the midterm results. Last session, the Kansas Legislature followed several other Republican-led legislatures across the country in ...

The executive board of SPARK, a Kansas committee of appointed leaders, proposed late last month to divvy up some $150 million of Kansas federal COVID relief funding. For K-12 schools, $4 million was proposed for electronic access projects and $50 million divided into $1,000 stipends for ...