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[Westie @WestiesClass]

@Scarytakanuva68 No, because it won’t be for democracy, it will be for a plutocracy.
I am very comfortable with our selection process, and like that we have Judges picked by merit, not who can get the biggest out of state donor to back them and be beholden to them.

[Westie @WestiesClass]

KS Supreme Court Judges are chosen by merit. A commission-4 selected by KS lawyers, 4 Non-Lawyers selected by the Gov and a chair. They give the Gov 3 choices and one is picked. A year later that Judge has to stand for a Retention election where WE decide if they stay

[John R. Whitmer @JohnRWhitmer]

You have ZERO vote in who sits on the Kansas Supreme Court.

A small group of attorneys hand-picks the justices who make some of the biggest legal decisions in KS. Attorneys are less than 1% of Kansas, yet control 100% of the selection process.

On August 4, vote YES to restore the people's voice and let Kansans elect their Supreme Court justices—just like voters do in 21 states and in all 55 Kansas counties.

#ksleg #VoteYES

https://t.co/NW81HvrG3L

[Westie @WestiesClass]

Post Hoc ergo Propter Hoc #ksleg

[@Kansas1 @TriciaBurt]

This is exactly what happened in Kansas. Until last year, most school districts had gone 8 or 9 years without a formal KSDE accreditation review. Nine years is a long time without accountability. #ksed #ksleg

[Westie @WestiesClass]

@LoriSevedge @KSFamilyVoice Really? Have you seen the oversight our Congress has provided in the last 20 odd years?
Your first claim was that it was done in secrecy, it was most assuredly not, and now you move the goalposts because the facts and evidence don’t support your claims.

[Westie @WestiesClass]

@TriciaBurt Post Hoc ergo Propter Hoc

[Westie @WestiesClass]

@LoriSevedge @KSFamilyVoice Please explain to me that a hearing that was open to the public, advertised, announced, and LIVE-STREAMED on YouTube is a secret hearing… https://t.co/eMQu2yvonu

[Westie @WestiesClass]

This is false, it wasn’t quiet it was open and announced weeks ago. At least 5 newspapers in the states had articles about it.
We elected Kelly, the Judicial selection committee has 4 Lawyers, 4 Non lawyers appointed by the governor, and a chair.
Quit scaremongering. #ksleg

[Kansas Family Voice @KSFamilyVoice]

This week, a 9-member screening panel made up largely of lawyers elected by other lawyers quietly recommended 3 district judges to Gov. Kelly to fill a seat on the Kansas Supreme Court. Kelly will make the final call. Kansans won't‼️

One of the finalists even just blocked a state law protecting children from gender surgeries.

These are the kinds of decisions being made for you, without you.

August 4, vote YES to give Kansans the power to elect their own Supreme Court justices.🗳️

[Westie @WestiesClass]

@cappicard @davetrabert @KCMikeMahoney @bvschools @ShawneeMission5 @desotoschools @OIatheschooIs Under KS Law (K.S.A. 72-3422), the #ksleg is obligated to reimburse school districts for 92% of excess costs of providing special SPED services. Because they choose to underfund this mandate, reimbursements cover only about 65 to 75% of those costs. Has nothing to do with KNEA

[Westie @WestiesClass]

@shelbysaidthat @davetrabert @bvschools @ShawneeMission5 @desotoschools @OIatheschooIs https://t.co/oS3l8bMCS7
Here is the 2025 Audit List! Feel free to peruse!

[Westie @WestiesClass]

Why are four Kansas Schools suing the #ksleg?

[Westie @WestiesClass]

Under KS Law (K.S.A. 72-3422), the #ksleg is legally obligated to reimburse school districts for 92% of the "excess costs" of providing special education (SPED) services. Because they choose to underfund this mandate, reimbursements cover only about 65 to 75% of those costs.

[The Kansas City Star @KCStar]

These Johnson County schools will sue Kansas over funding. See why https://t.co/ZIVvqB0Oi4

[Cindy Holscher @cindy4kansas]

Special education has not been fully funded since 2011. As your next governor, I will fight to fully fund our schools so that districts aren't forced to take drastic action just to keep their doors open.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Making teaching a low-status profession will have prolonged negative ramifications for decades to come.

When you constantly demean a profession, and politicians paint you as "indoctrinators", you push talented people out and discourage the next generation of educators.

[Westie @WestiesClass]

Limiting the use of Chromebooks would be far more useful than an outright ban. Getting students to see Chromebooks/laptops as tools rather then toys will help more then going back to one room computer labs. Heck even having classroom carts would be ok.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

It seems the only people who want students on Chromebooks all day are BigEd Tech companies and the districts who get kickbacks…

We need to get back to textbooks and written assignments.

More screens are not the answer. In fact, they’re a large part of the problem.

[Kevin McLeod @bannon1975]

The goal of children's reading shouldn't be to produce children who can pass a test at eleven. It should be to produce parents at thirty-five who read with their own children because they know what stories can do. We're optimising for a moment. We should be optimising for a generation.

[Westie @WestiesClass]

@Dale_Chu @The74 @KevinMahnken Post hoc ergo propter hoc

[Westie @WestiesClass]

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

NCLB looks better and better in the rearview mirror.

[Westie @WestiesClass]

I’ll take things that never happened for $1,000 Alex

[Ruth Joy @RuthJoy96960173]

When a school chum of mine was student teaching in what we used to call an inner city school, the teachers took the catalytic converters from their cars with them into the building so they wouldn't be stolen from the school parking lot. Her cooperating teacher told her that he always got high before class so he'd be on the same level as his students. 1969.