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Kansas Education Testing Cut Scores Change, Part 5 of a Series on Education
August 15, 2025 What Are Kansas School Assessments Telling Us over the Years? The Kansas State Board of Education voted on August 12, 2025 to change the cut scores for student achievement state testing in math, science, and ELA. The vote was 7 to 3 with members Michelle Dombrowsky, Connie O’Brian, and Debbie Potter voting… Read more
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DIVE Into Change: A Fundraiser for Sydney Marsden. Save Bluejacket Pool. Save our Community
August 14, 2025 As Overland Park works on its Parks and Recreation overhaul—Playbook OP, the successor to the current Comprehensive Park System Master Plan—residents are diving into action to preserve their beloved neighborhood pools. Under the existing plan, pools are systematically closed in preparation for the launch of Playbook OP. So far, three neighborhood pools—Roe,… Read more
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Why is Kansas the High Tax Point on the Prairie?
August 8, 2025 For years, I have sounded the alarm on tax incentives decimating Kansas’ tax base. More recently in 2022 I fought the ill-advised Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion (APEX) bill which gave Panasonic $829 million in state tax incentives. I opposed De Soto handing Panasonic an additional $200 million in tax incentives and now… Read more
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Slush Fund Shut Down: AG Deems County Sales Tax Unlawful
July 29, 2925 Well, the Johnson County Commission – led by Chairman Mike Kelly (an attorney) – got a serious slap down from Attorney General Kris Kobach on Tuesday, July 22. The AG’s office issued a legal opinion declaring that the 1/4 cent public safety sales tax ballot language, scheduled for the November 4, 2025 ballot, is unlawful.… Read more
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Progressive nonprofit’s “peer pressure with a purpose” to shepherd progressive voters to the polls
Primary Election Day is Next Tuesday in Nine Kansas Counties July 29, 2025 Local elections in Kansas in odd-numbered years often see very low voter turnout. In 2016 a progressive Kansas nonprofit decided it wanted to improve turnout in Kansas elections, especially primary elections. Mainstream Coalition’s “The Voter Network” evolved from a “Be a Voter” project to… Read more
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Federal judge says unconstitutional for Kansas to regulate mail ballot applications (again)
Nonprofits have flooded Kansas with mail ballot applications targeting mostly progressive voters since 2018 July 08, 2025 Progressive, lawfare attorney Marc Elias’ Democracy Docket shows a summary of this Kansas case in federal district court: On July 3, 2025, the district court held that the law preventing third parties from mailing prefilled mail-ballot applications to registered voters… Read more
