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Kansas Lawmakers Already Have Plans for COVID Relief Funds GOP lawmakers want to use the estimated $1.6 billion that the state will receive from the federal relief package to fund $500 million in tax cuts, the unemployment insurance fund and teacher bonuses. Katie Bernard, The Kansas City Star   |   March 1, 2021   |  News (TNS) — Early Saturday morning, Kansas' three Republican U.S. House members voted against the massive Biden administration pandemic relief package that will send an estimated $1.6 billion to the state. Rep. Jake LaTur...

Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector photo by: Screen capture/Kansas Reflector The Senate Education Committee plans a hearing this week at the Capitol on a Senate bill forcing public K-12 districts to return to in-person teaching by March 26 and to never conduct online-only instruction in the future despite health emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic. TOPEKA — Two influential K-12 education organizations in Kansas perked up when the Senate’s education committee agreed to dive into a bill mandating that in-person instruction resume by March 26 and forbidding local school boards from ever aga...

Kansas lawmakers push civics test for high school graduation Follow Us Question of the Day By ANDY TSUBASA FIELD - Associated Press - Wednesday, February 3, 2021 TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas lawmaker and the state’s Republican attorney general are pushing a bill to require high school students to pass a civics test to graduate in an effort to increase civic engagement. The proposal is facing pushback from members of the state’s largest teacher’s union, the second-largest school district and the Kansas As...

Andy Tsubasa Field, Associated Press/Report for America photo by: Nick Krug Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, February 2014. TOPEKA (AP) — A Kansas lawmaker and the state’s Republican attorney general are pushing a bill to require high school students to pass a civics test to graduate in an effort to increase civic engagement. The proposal is facing pushback from members of the state’s largest teacher’s union, the second-largest school district and the Kansas Association of School Boards, which say that students are already getting an education in civics in government and history classes....