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Raising taxes for Kansas schools is not the answer
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Dear Editor,The next time a candidate for state legislature promises to “fully fund education” ask them how much more they will raise your taxes. Since the 2005 Kansas Supreme Court ordered the Legislature to increase K-12 spending by more than $1 billion in the Montoy case, school districts used our tax dollars to hire over 9,000 new employees. Only 40% were teachers.