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Fully Funded, Fully Failing

Teacher unions are good at pushing woke, not so good at pushing reading and writing.

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Rising States of America
Oct 01, 2025
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Governor Laura Kelly likes to boast that Kansas schools have been “fully funded for seven years in a row.” That sounds impressive—until you look at the results. Student achievement is falling, standards are slipping, and outcomes are worse than ever before. Kansans are paying more, but our children are learning less.

Why? Because teachers unions and the …

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