Author: Dave Trabert
KDOR won’t substantiate claims in effort to defeat tax relief
The Kansas Department of Revenue (KDOR) sent a memo to a few legislative leaders in a thinly-veiled effort to give…
Blue Valley board to students and parents: No soup for you!
While watching the Blue Valley school board’s April 8 meeting to rule on parents’ requests for COVID mask accommodations for…
Blue Valley district deprives parents of due process rights
The Blue Valley school district in Johnson County deprived two parents of their due process rights on Tuesday when the…
2020 payroll for city, county staff in Douglas, Shawnee counties
The 2020 payroll listings posted to KansasOpenGov.org for Topeka, Lawrence, Shawnee County, and Douglas County show some unusual compensation increases…
Garden City, Finney County employee pay increases
The 2020 calendar year payroll listings posted to KansasOpenGov.org for Garden City and Finney County show some unusual compensation increases.…
Stand Up Blue Valley: fund systems, not students
The Kansas House of Representatives just approved legislation to give academically challenged students a chance for a better education, and…
Mask mandates had no impact on COVID case growth
When Kansas Governor Laura Kelly issued a new statewide mask mandate in November, 38 counties adopted it, 43 counties rejected…
Wichita, Sedgwick County differ on employee pay increases
Pay increases given in 2020 to employees of the City of Wichita and Sedgwick County reflect a very different approach…
Gov. Kelly makes false statements on K-12 funding
Taxpayers can add K-12 funding to the list of false and misleading claims by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly. Responding earlier…
Wyandotte County officials won’t discuss 2020 pay increases
While many residents were struggling to pay bills last year, some of the highest-paid employees of the Unified Government of…
Biden bailout (unconstitutionally) prohibits state tax cuts or rebates
Buried on page 579 of the $1.9 trillion so-called stimulus bill is a provision that prohibits state tax cuts between…
Eye-opening 2020 pay increases for some JoCo employees
The COVID pandemic was tough on everyone, but the 2020 pay increases for some Johnson County government workers were pretty…
Johnson Co. helps school districts mislead on quarantine letters
When a Johnson county student is thought to be exposed to someone with COVID, parents get quarantine letters from the…
Hineman, Goossen make false claims about 2012 Kansas tax plan
People across the nation who are opposed to letting citizens keep more of their hard-earned money have repeatedly pointed to…
How some government officials circumvent Open Records requests
The Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) declares, “It is the public policy of Kansas that public records shall be open…
State Treasurer Lynn Rogers deceives taxpayers on ESA programs
State Treasurer Lynn Rogers, a Wichita Democrat, recently took a hard stance against legislation that would expand educational opportunities for…
Parents frustrated by USD 437 officials in Black Lives Matter issue
The controversy over Black Lives Matter posters throughout the halls of Washburn Rural High School in the USD 437 Auburn…
KASB, USD 231 mislead on education savings accounts
The USD 231 Gardner Edgerton school district is helping the Kansas Association of School Boards distribute misleading information in opposition…
KBOE President Jim Porter deceives on student achievement (again)
State Board of Education President Jim Porter made a conscious attempt to deceive members of the House K-12 Budget Committee…
KS education lobby attacks opportunity – Part 3, KASB
The Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB), the taxpayer-funded lobbying arm of local school boards, this week renewed their opposition…
Tips for handling school district ‘quarantine’ notices
Parents are growing increasingly frustrated with school districts over their handling of alleged exposure to COVID, particularly with the lack…
KS education lobby attacks opportunity – Part 2, SMSD
The Shawnee Mission School District (SMSD) is part of the education lobby that is attacking opportunity for students who are…
Black Lives Matter speech controversy at Auburn-Washburn
A series of Black Lives Matter posters in the hallways of Washburn Rural High School in the USD 437 Auburn-Washburn…
USD 231 said less than 25% of MS and HS kids remote
USD 231 Gardner Edgerton earlier this week blamed “confusing” questions from the Kansas Dept. of Education (KSDE) for reporting the…