The budget language calls for fining a school district that "experiences a student walkout" and fails to obtain written parental consent for each student who leaves a school building. Districts would be fined if they fail to enforce school attendance laws and policies associated with disciplinary actions for absent students. They also could face penalties if their staff encourage, facilitate or enable a walkout. The fine would be equal to the contract base salary of the superintendent of the offending district for each school day the walkout occurs. It only applies to public schools.

Seems bad.

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The Google app on my phone only pushes notifications to me about one topic: AL East baseball. I don’t know why and can’t figure out how to stop it, but I’m keeping up to date on the Blue Jays

I have a feeling she doesn’t mean that the democrats should be amplifying Rashida Tlaib.

I know they are different people, but that didn’t stop me from having Mary Berry be my mental image of Mary Beard. Google image searching just now… it wasn’t that bad of a stand in

Newsies by Lin Manuel Miranda

Not a huge effect (half a point among Republicans, a point among Democrats), but interesting anyway. Again, both races are uncontested, so people are making the choice to vote for one but not the other. Co-authors are Alex Middlewood and one of our undergrads, David Hernandez.

Presenting at the Great Plains PS Assn conference tomorrow. We looked at uncontested partisan precinct committeeman/woman races in Kansas, and noticed that the men on average did better than the women with Republicans, opposite for Democrats. Holds when you control for gender makeup of voters.

I got Charli XCX, she’s a fuckin tank

Who needs bell hooks when you've got bill hooks

The hobbit paperback cover

This is exactly why I read the Hobbit as a kid. My teacher had this edition, which did not make me hopeful it’d be any good, but it worked out well

Trivia league category breakdown, I’ve gotten one out of six questions right in world history

My worst category after two weeks. Not beating the stereotypes of Americanists

Sending someone into this podcast with only "pretends to be a cowboy" is leaving out so much back story and I'm excited for them to discover it

The second chart reminds me of discussions in my American government classes about the Electoral College and the Senate. A common defense of their disproportionate representation is that it protects rural voters from urban voters, but a majority of rural residents live in the 15 biggest states!

The elder millennials yearn for forum wars

Another reason to protect federal research funding

Unofficial Election Night Results USD # USD Name Home County K-12 Membership, 2024-2025 Bond Amount Yes No Yes % USD 107 Rock Hills (Proposition 1) Jewell 302 $5,670,000 358 336 51.6% (Proposition 2) $1,500,000 230 461 33.3% USD 232 De Soto Johnson 6,328 $99,850,000 4,074 2,454 62.4% USD 233 Olathe Johnson 24,610 $389,000,000 15,344 8,960 63.1% USD 270 Plainville (Proposition 1) Rooks 347 $5,490,000 392 263 59.8% (Proposition 2) $7,055,000 209 443 32.1% USD 322 Onaga-Havensville-Wheaton (Proposition 1) Pottawatomie 256 $10,000,000 562 174 76.4% (Proposition 2) $2,000,000 541 181 74.9% USD 340 Jefferson West Jefferson 729 $17,500,000 340 899 27.4% USD 353 Wellington Sumner 1,248 $17,850,000 894 920 49.3% USD 373 Newton Harvey 2,529 $50,000,000 2,197 1,219 64.3% USD 379 Clay County Clay 1,133 $10,250,000 754 126 85.7% USD 404 Riverton Cherokee 584 $8,500,000 USD 407 Russell County Russell 649 $13,500,000 540 1,000 35.1% USD 417 Morris County Morris 648 $31,500,000 507 1,217 29.4% USD 418 McPherson (Proposition 1) McPherson 1,809 $62,500,000 2,290 1,313 63.6% (Proposition 2) $27,000,000 2,172 1,435 60.2% USD 469 Lansing (Proposition 1) Leavenworth 2,272 $30,000,000 1,095 1,579 40.9% (Proposition 2) $5,000,000 890 1,779 33.3% USD 482 Dighton Lane 204 $1,100,000 285 90 76.0%

Unofficial Election Night Results City 2020 Population Tax Increase Yes No Yes % Edgerton 1,748 1.00% 98 89 52.4% Frontenac 3,382 0.75% 349 21 94.3% Harper 1,313 1.00% 166 132 55.7% Hutchinson 40,006 0.75% 2316 2166 51.7% Princeton 248 0.50% 13 7 65.0% Wichita 397,532 1.00% 9143 41097 18.2%

A roundup of the unofficial election night results from Kansas's special election day! Still missing results from USD 404, although local news is reporting that the bond measure passed. #ksleg

Wichita sales tax. Yes 9002, no 40462

216/225 precincts reporting in Wichita, and we’re still at 81% no. #ksleg

Wichita sales tax. Yes 5661, no 24343

First batch of Election Day results in Wichita are out (91/225 precincts), and No is up to 81%. #ksleg

Hutchinson report #2. Yes 2150, no 2040

The second biggest municipal race in KS tonight is in Hutchinson, a 0.75% sales tax. Yes has a small edge so far at 51.3%. #ksleg

Sales tax results. Yes 3447, no 13011

The early vote for the Wichita 1% sales tax just dropped, and it is not looking good. That’s 79% no.

Honestly this is first date stuff. Dating profile stuff

The Kansas SOS office increased the cost of their voter registration file and advance voting list subscriptions by 50% last month ($200 -> $300). Bummer!

USD # USD Name Home County K-12 Membership, 2024-2025 Bond Amount USD 107 Rock Hills (Proposition 1) Jewell 302 $5,670,000 (Proposition 2) $1,500,000 USD 232 De Soto Johnson 6,328 $99,850,000 USD 233 Olathe Johnson 24,610 $389,000,000 USD 270 Plainville (Proposition 1) Rooks 347 $5,490,000 (Proposition 2) $7,055,000 USD 322 Onaga-Havensville-Wheaton (Proposition 1) Pottawatomie 256 $10,000,000 (Proposition 2) $2,000,000 USD 340 Jefferson West Jefferson 729 $17,500,000 USD 353 Wellington Sumner 1,248 $17,850,000 USD 373 Newton Harvey 2,529 $50,000,000 USD 379 Clay County Clay 1,133 $10,250,000 USD 404 Riverton Cherokee 584 $8,500,000 USD 407 Russell County Russell 649 $13,500,000 USD 417 Morris County Morris 648 $31,500,000 USD 418 McPherson (Proposition 1) McPherson 1,809 $62,500,000 (Proposition 2) $27,000,000 USD 469 Lansing (Proposition 1) Leavenworth 2,272 $30,000,000 (Proposition 2) $5,000,000 USD 482 Dighton Lane 204 $1,100,000

City 2020 Population Tax Increase Edgerton 1,748 1.00% Frontenac 3,382 0.75% Harper 1,313 1.00% Hutchinson 40,006 0.75% Princeton 248 0.50% Wichita 397,532 1.00%

Tomorrow is special election day in Kansas! We've got 20 school bond measures and 6 municipal sales tax measures on ballots around the state, including in the city of Wichita and for Olathe Public Schools. Full text for all the measures is up on our site: ike-lab.com/complete_ele... #ksleg

Doing my first season of #LearnedLeague. Starting out on top thanks to my dominion over the alphabet

It’s interesting to click through to the data he’s citing - they say reading and science scores have been stable long term, it’s specifically math scores that are on the decline. Which isn’t good, but it doesn’t match some of these claims he’s making as to what kids these days can’t do

2026 Special Election Results

We’ve got the full text up of all of the special election ballot measures that will be held on March 3rd! ike-lab.com/complete_ele.... #ksleg

Shall a retailer' sales tax in the amount of (2%) the collection of which commence on 10-1-2025 and shall terminate ten years after its commencement be levied in The City of Altoona, Kansas, for t/he purpose of infrastructure improvements

Probably should proofread this stuff before it goes on the ballot, huh

No Labels Kansas plebiscite ballot, with the full text of the constitution and bylaws up for a vote (too long to put in the alt text).

As a registered member of the No Labels Kansas party, I don’t get to vote in primaries, but I did get a “plebiscite ballot” today.

How does this generation of nieces and nephews earn money if not by making websites for the nation’s small businesses