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Leah Fliter

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Assistant Executive Director of Advocacy and Governmental Relations, Kansas Association of School Boards.

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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Wonderful ceremony today in #ksleg as Sen. Mike Argabright honors the Southern Lyon County USD 252 Honor Flight program on the Senate floor. I was v moved today to speak w/ a Vietnam veteran who was choked up describing the wonderful visit to DC in April w/ these students.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The USD 252 Southern Lyon County Honor Flight program is in the #ksleg today to share about the program & to be honored on the Senate floor.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Good morning #ksleg! KASB’s “The Advocate” podcast for week 2 of the session is live! Shannon & I talk taxes, K12 funding, and wonder why leadership is pushing vouchers:
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The Advocate - A KASB Podcast
The Kansas Association of School Boards Advocacy and Communications Teams bring you semi-regular updates from Topeka on current issues affecting K-12 Education.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
#KSLEG
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
ALERT: SB 75 gives an $8k voucher to private school parents. Being heard Tuesday, January 28 at 1:30 pm. YOU MUST NOTIFY COMMITTEE TODAY THAT YOU WISH TO TESTIFY. Email S.Education@senate.ks.gov and state you will oppose SB 75. PDF of testimony due to same address by NOON MONDAY.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
KC fans, remember the immortal words of Travis Kelce: #ksleg
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Good morning, #ksleg! The latest episode of KASB’s “The Advocate” podcast will drop this afternoon. Join me & Shannon Kimball for all the details on a bill reducing the mill levy for schools. We’ll also bash lurking voucher proposals & give some action steps.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Truth. 💄🐖
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Good morning, #ksleg fans! On tap today, KASB neutral testimony on HB 2011, reduces the 20 mills tax levy to 18.5. Working with Chair to ensure no revenue loss to schools. In Sen. Local Gov, we’re highlighting our work with Engaged Kansas to encourage KS to run for local ofc.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Good evening #ksleg fans! Head over to KASB’S FB page for a quick recap of today and a preview of our testimony on a bill that reduces the 20 mills for schools.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The first episode of KASB’s “The Advocate” podcast is posted! In 20 minutes, Shannon & I cover a great 1st week of the #ksleg 2025 session & give a heads-up on dark-money bills in the hopper. Listen here:
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KASB's The Advocate
Kansas Association of School Boards Advocacy and Communications team brings you semi-regular updates from Topeka, KS on current issues affecting K-12 Education. Follow The Advocate Podcast for the…
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Good morning, #ksleg! Today we’ll be covering literacy in House Ed and SPED funding in Senate Ed. Tomorrow: hrng in House Tax on HB 2011, reducing 20 mills for schools to 18.5. Working w/Chair to ensure no revenue loss for ksed. Check our daily FB Live update for all the deets.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Good morning, #ksleg! KASB’s “The Advocate” podcast will drop later today. Join me & the fabulous Shannon Kimball for a quick rundown of all the deets from the first week of the session.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
New K-12 followers, do you want to know all the deets from under the #ksleg dome & how to support Ks public schools? Shannon Kimball & I post a 10-minute video recap at the end of each day. Head over to the KASB FB page and click “like” to receive notice of when we go live.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Good morning, #ksleg! Shannon Kimball & I are back in the Statehouse today. Lots of meetings & briefings on tap. Shannon will cover the 10 a.m. joint House Approps/Senate Ways & Means meeting for Budget Director Proffitt’s presentation on Gov Laura Kelly’s budget priorities. 1/
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Good morning, #ksleg! Shannon Kimball & I are back in the Statehouse today. Lots of meetings & briefings on tap. Shannon will cover the 10 a.m. joint House Approps/Senate Ways & Means meeting for Budget Director Proffitt’s presentation on Gov Laura Kelly’s budget priorities. 1/
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Shannon Kimball @skimball.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Good evening #ksed! @leahfliter.bsky.social and I are settling down to watch Governor Laura Kelly's State of the State address this evening. We will be listening intently for the Governor's proposals on K-12 education, especially #fullyfundSPED. #ksleg
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Good morning, #ksleg! I’m in Senate Tax for its 1st meeting of 2025. On tap today, request for bill intros and overview of KS taxes. Thursday: hearing on proposed constitutional amendment to cap property valuation hikes. KASB opposes arbitrary caps on revenue for schools, svcs.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Good morning, #ksleg! Committee meetings ramping up this week, including a Thursday Senate Tax hearing to cap property valuation increases. KASB opposes arbitrary caps on revenue for schools and other public services.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Shannon Kimball & I covering Day One of #ksleg 2025. I’m in the Senate, where Justice Dan Biles and Secretary of State Schwab are swearing in the body.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Good morning, #ksleg! KASB is proud to support Kansas public schools. Shannon Kimball and I will post a 10-minute update on KASB’s FB page at the end of each work day. On tap this wk: budget bill intro & a bill to cap property tax valuation.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
#ksleg 2025 session starts tomorrow! KASB is honored to support the public schools that welcome and educate every Kansas kid.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Join us 1:30 - 3pm this Sunday to learn how school vouches impact our students and communities. At Tomahawk Ridge Community Ctr, 119th & Lowell, OPKS. @leahfliter.bsky.social @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social @judith-deedy.bsky.social
Photos of Leah Fliter (KASB), Josh Cowan (Author, The Privateers) and Judith Deedy (Game On For KS Schools). Title of forum is "How Vouchers and "School Choice" Harm Students. QR code
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Coming to the #ksleg in 2025?
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KMUW @kmuw.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The price of beef is at all-time highs, but a major policy initiative of the incoming Trump Administration could drive them higher. In an industry that's already strapped for workers, mass deportations could put some ranchers and feedlots out of business.
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Mass deportations could endanger Kansas’ meat economy: ‘It would be a ghost town’
The price of beef is at all-time highs, but a major policy initiative of the incoming Trump Administration could drive them higher. In an industry that's already strapped for workers, mass…
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Looking forward to this! @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social @gameonkansas.bsky.social @skimball.bsky.social
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Similar numbers in KS. Yet #ksleg leadership wants to impose school vouchers in 2025.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 06/01/2025
The incoming Trump administration’s vision for the nation’s schools is emerging—and it looks a lot like the past. But as @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social writes, it’s more than nostalgia at work on the far right.
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Schoolhouse Crock | Jennifer C. Berkshire
In every generation, charlatans come along with a plan to make education better by spending less money on schools.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
#ksleg Josh Cowen (@joshcowenmsu.bsky.social)
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Josh Cowen (@joshcowenmsu.bsky.social)
Districts are left with fixed costs when voucher kids leave and take state aid with them. But most voucher kids were already private. So that hit comes as general fund gets eaten up by larger voucher…
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 04/01/2025
The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.
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William the Librarian @williamottens.com · 03/01/2025
The library is so busy right now. I’m pretty sure the weekend forecast has something to do with that.
A weather map of Kansas with colored bands. Instead of inches of snow, light blue area represents 1-3 books, purple 3-6 books, fuchsia 6-9 books, and pink 9-12 books.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year, #ksleg! Looking forward to supporting KS public schools in 2025.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Coming to #ksleg??
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
If dark money groups have their way, KS tax $ will pay for scams and out-of-state “schools.” #Ksleg, let’s ensure every KS kid has a high-quality, well funded local public school. Josh Cowen (@joshcowenmsu.bsky.social)
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Josh Cowen (@joshcowenmsu.bsky.social)
Not surprisingly Koch’s lobby group AFP is actually sharing this around as a good thing [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
More great stuff from Ks public schools. #ksleg
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Reflecting on a great 1st semester for KS public schools, the lifeblood of our communities. #ksleg
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Great things happening in Ks public schools. Looking forward to working with #ksleg in 2025 to ensure every Ks kid can thrive and grow in their local public school.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Oh heck no. These are likely the same folks who lost their minds over remote learning but they’re fine with chatbots teaching their kids…. #ksleg
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New Arizona charter school will use AI in place of human teachers
Unbound Academy, which operates in Texas and Florida as Alpha Schools, has been approved to open a charter school in Arizona with an AI learning model that adjusts kids’ learning plans on the fly.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
In this episode, Mike & I talked about how KASB’s legislative work will support public schools in 2025; cell phones in schools; culture war issues; & public ed’s role as a keystone of our democracy. megaphone.link/NCACA3845154...
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12/18/24: Leah Fliter by Within Reason with Mike Matson
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Appreciated this opportunity to talk about KASB's work on behalf of Kansas public schools.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Kansans love their local public schools. Unfortunately, we hear that #ksleg leadership wants to pass school vouchers in 2025. ICYMI, ~70% of vouchers go to families already in private school. Kansas communities thrive when our kids can depend on a well-funded local public school.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
ICYMI; This week in #ksed public schools: Christmas program; dissecting a frog, volleyball champs, and career prep. Public schools rock! #ksleg
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
KS public schools are the lifeblood of our communities. Sadly, dark-money lobbyists want the #ksleg to harm our schools in 2025. KASB is proud to support every Kansas kid, every day, in their local public schools.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Thriving public schools = thriving KS communities. But some in #ksleg want school vouchers. Vouchers = learning loss; discrimination against SPED kids; unlicensed “teachers.” KS is best when every kid has the freedom to learn in their local public school.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
It was great to help represent Engaged Kansas at the Kansas Farm Bureau Annual Meeting in Manhattan. EK is a partnership of KASB, KFB, & other leading KS organizations that seeks to encourage & support Kansans who run for local office. #ksleg
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Thrilled to be back in my old stomping grounds at Kansas Farm Bureau's Annual Convention in Manhattan, promoting Engaged Kansas. EK works to encourage Kansans of all walks of life to run for local public offices. FB Political Director Brenden Wirth is also a BOE member.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Great things happening in #ksed public schools this week. Electrical careers; orchestra; math, reading & story structure; and a spelling bee. Public schools rock! #ksleg
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This week in #ksed public schools: Christmas program; dissecting a frog, volleyball champs, and career prep. Public schools rock! #ksleg
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 05/12/2024
When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.
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Leah Fliter @leahfliter.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Good morning, #ksed! Handy info from the Fordham Institute that dark money think tank "Mis-NAEPery" is a sham: buff.ly/4gbKFqG #ksleg
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