That K-12 Student Performance and Efficiency Commission, that is supposed to suggest to the upcoming Kansas Legislature how to, well, make schools more efficient and produce brighter students, is reaching again.
That reach? Most simply, into whatever the commission’s most conservative members can find in the way of making sure that not one dime of taxpayer money goes into the operation of the state’s largest schoolteacher union, the Kansas National Education Association.
Last year, the Legislature sank school districts’ option to negotiate to allow schoolteachers to have part of their salary automatically deducted from their paychecks for contributions to the KNEA political action committee.
Just a way to make it more inconvenient for the union members to contribute to the political action committee.