Comments on: The arithmetic of school choice in Wichita http://wichitaliberty.org/wichita-kansas-schools/will-the-wichita-public-school-district-consider-this-method-of-reducing-school-overcrowding/ Individual liberty, limited government, and free markets in Wichita and Kansas Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:47:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Anonymous http://wichitaliberty.org/wichita-kansas-schools/will-the-wichita-public-school-district-consider-this-method-of-reducing-school-overcrowding/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-27 Denis Boyles recent book, "Superior Nebraska," discussed Senator Schodorf's role in the 2005 Kansas legislature's special session caused by the Kansas Supreme Court's school finance edict in the Montoy case requiring a massive increase in government school funding. It is not a flattering portrait. This increased tax funding was based upon an Augenblick & Myer study of school administrators and staff's requests for additional funding. A&M is a liberal school spending advocacy group. This study suggested over $850 million more in a state where there are less than 450,000 students. Boyles book reported that Schodorf is being paid by the Wichita Public Schools. She has told lobbyists in Topeka that she works there when the legislature is in session so I doubt that she will supportive of any change in the public school status quo. Denis Boyles recent book, “Superior Nebraska,” discussed Senator Schodorf’s role in the 2005 Kansas legislature’s special session caused by the Kansas Supreme Court’s school finance edict in the Montoy case requiring a massive increase in government school funding. It is not a flattering portrait.

This increased tax funding was based upon an Augenblick & Myer study of school administrators and staff’s requests for additional funding. A&M is a liberal school spending advocacy group. This study suggested over $850 million more in a state where there are less than 450,000 students.

Boyles book reported that Schodorf is being paid by the Wichita Public Schools. She has told lobbyists in Topeka that she works there when the legislature is in session so I doubt that she will supportive of any change in the public school status quo.

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