When I first read this, I thought it
might be a joke. But then I had to remember that our Kansas governor is one of
the most idiotic governors ever elected to public office. As a person who works
in the education system I take a special interest in articles like this. This
is the first I have heard of this policy, but it is true that Kansas is one of
the highest spending states on highway projects and one of the lowest in basic
education. -Otto’s
War Room
From F5 (a Wichita alternative newspaper):
January 30, 2014
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, best known as the crazy
neighbor "Monroe" from the '80s sitcom Too Close For Comfort,
announced this week that under his guidance Kansas is assured to achieve yet
another extraordinarily high ranking in doing things terribly.
Late last year, a national survey revealed that only
Alabama and Wisconsin had cut more funding per pupil in our educational system
since 2007-2008. While many states slowly returned funding levels to normal or
more as the economy recovered, Brownback and others in his camp claimed to be
unable to afford such action while at the same time making huge income tax cuts.
"We found ourselves in rare company, only behind
those two great states," stated the hilarious former television sidekick
in an interview Saturday. "Still, I knew we could do better. We will be
first in the nation at lack of education funding, broseph. That's how I came up
with our new Road To Education program."
Brownback's new program would cut all direct funding to
schools and would give each child in the state a timecard. Each child would
earn hours of education through work maintaining and building the state's roads
and highways. Sixteen hours of labor would earn a child a week of public
education, with the assumption being that children would be available to work
eight hour days on Saturdays and Sundays.
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