Emily Boedeker

Music lover and teacher of young people. Ideas expressed are my own, unless you also share those ideas.

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

Hey there @Phillips ! I know you’re coming to Lawrence tomorrow… want to come sing with my second graders? They are preparing “Home” for their concert!

[LHS Budget @lhsbudget]

"A mile longer, dangerous walk. Lower test scores. Larger class sizes. More weather related absences. Voting yes tells me nothing was changed from the previous mistakes. Don’t put the risk of balancing the budget on our most at risk students.” -Former Kennedy parent

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

The student board member tonight is on fire! 🔥🔥🔥 she is asking all the right questions.

[Lawrence Education Association @LawrenceEdAssoc]

Student BOE member: Will 8th grade Sci teachers get support with the increasing workload w/ more topics to teach & state assessments? YES! You are on it! 👏👏👏 STANDING OVATION FROM LEA!

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

@LawrenceEdAssoc This student board member is KILLING IT- GO, GIRL, GOOOOOO

[LHS Budget @lhsbudget]

"I consider this a bunch of malarkey. The school board selected the four most poor and diverse neighborhoods to fend for themselves. It's like the hunger games. This is not inclusion." -Kevin Elliot, Broken Arrow parent

[Katie Bernard @KatieJ_Bernard]

Another update:

Gov. Kelly, when asked whether the inclusion of sped funding in ESA's sweetened the deal for her said she doesn't "respond well to game playing and bribery."

She said the lawmakers who orchestrated this will "live to regret it." #ksleg

https://t.co/DWHGg3pVWJ

[Scott Rothschild @srothschild1]

Division vote on SB 83 vouchers, 61-59. The bill will need 63 votes on final action to be approved. Thank you to legislators who voted "No." This is bad for students & taxpayers & is un-Kansas in holding special ed funding hostage #ksleg #ksed

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

Vote was 61-59 in favor of the bill (SB 83). #ksleg

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

Something this music teacher can get on board with! 🙃

[Rep. Linda Featherston @Linda4Kansas]

Lots of talk about low test scores today. Yesterday in education, we learned that kids participating in state honors ensembles scored 8.6 points higher on the ACT. Maybe instead of talking about vouchers, we should be talking about investing in music ed. #ksleg #ksed

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

And in a surprise to no one they said “GOOD” when the speaker talked about the consequences of cutting public ed. #ksde #ksleg

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

Y’all- racism is alive and well in the Kansas Statehouse today. Groups of women in the gallery not hiding their racist comments anytime a speaker of color takes the floor. #ksleg

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

Yeahhhhhh, I’m in the gallery and it’s been really great to hear how much respect the teaching profession is receiving by the Kansas House today. 🙄

[Rep. Linda Featherston @Linda4Kansas]

Attention teachers! Speaker at the well just said you were handing out packets during the pandemic and not checking your computers. That’s certainly not what I saw. What say ye @kneanews? #ksleg #ksed

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

@KSEconomist You must be a white man. Enjoy your sweater vests!

[Rep. Linda Featherston @Linda4Kansas]

Not one R member votes to cleanly fund special education. #ksleg #ksed

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

Rep. Williams said #ksleg doesn’t tell schools what curriculum to teach-so we are going to try and stop ramming through Eddie the Eagle then, right? #ksleg

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

So I’m in the Kansas House- they are starting by introducing the Kansas Master Teachers… before they try to take funding away from public schools. 🫠

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

Chair of the Ed committee, when talking about micro schools “100 years ago teachers weren’t licensed”.

Raise your hand if you want to live in the world like it was 100 years ago. 🙄

FYI- She has a masters in curriculum instruction. #ksleg

[Emily Boedeker @ebboedeker]

This thread is better than mine- follow along here for the shenanigans. I’ll continue to provide the snark. #ksleg

[Leah Fliter @leahfliter]

Good morning, #ksed. House gathering now to debate SB 83, ESA voucher bill combined w/1 yr SPED funding & 1 yr teacher raise that ties hands of districts, could prevent raises for other staff. @srothschild1 @jf_forrer & I are in the gallery for the duration. #ksleg

[Brandon Woodard @Woodard4Kansas]

The K-12 Budget Committee mathematics. #ksleg

[Melissa Evans @mrs_melevans]

Hearing #PublicEducation referred to as a monopoly is appalling.

Public education isn’t a business. Public education is an equalizer.

And I very much think we need to ask ourselves who would prioritize/benefit from diverting funds from an equalizer. #ksleg #ksed