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DID YOUR LEGISLATOR MAKE THE
HIGHER ED HONOR ROLL?
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GROUP ENDORSES LEGISLATORS FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF JOBS AND
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH QUALITY HIGHER EDUCATION |
Lenexa, KS, July 19, 2010 – Citizens for Higher
Education, a group that promotes quality higher
education as the engine that creates well-paying jobs
and economic prosperity in Kansas, has released its
2009/10 and lifetime report cards detailing how
legislators have voted on issues critical to higher
education.
In the last session, 24 Senators and
69 Representatives made the group’s Honor Roll by
scoring an A or B on the report card. On the opposite
end of the scale, 17 Senators received a D or F as did
52 Representatives.
| Click the following links to see
summary documents for the
House and
Senate
showing 2009/2010 votes in the left column as
well as the legislator’s lifetime average in the
right column. Every two years, those receiving A
or B grades are placed on the Honor Roll.
Click
here to see the entire Senate and House report
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“In 2009/2010 legislators were graded on a range of
votes involving tuition, funding and policy issues
for Regents universities and community colleges,
campus safety, appropriations, budgets and more. The
entire report card with individual vote records are
available on our website.
“Honor Roll legislators understand that there is an
undisputed link between quality higher education and
the long-term economic well-being of our state,”
said Bill Hall, Chairman of Citizens for Higher
Education. “Kansans who receive a quality
post-secondary education earn more, pay more taxes,
rely less on government programs and contribute more
to their communities over their lifetimes. Plus,
they are more likely to create jobs by starting and
growing their own businesses. That’s why pro-higher
education legislators deserve our endorsement and
support in this year’s elections.”
Citizens
for Higher Education has produced report cards in
the last three election cycles. For the first time
this year it has released the lifetime higher
education voting records of Kansas legislators.
“We are pleased by the strong level of
consistent support we have received from so many
thoughtful legislators,” Hall said. “Our state’s
community colleges and universities, and the
graduates they produce, are the engines that drive
our economy, both statewide and locally. In these
difficult times we desperately need their
creativity, ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit to
create new businesses and jobs for the 21st
Century.”
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CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATOR AND VOTE |
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Citizens for Higher Education urges all voters
to see how their legislator voted on these issues
and to go to the polls on election day.
“Congratulate them if they made our report card, and
if they didn’t ask them why. It’s critical that you
consider how your legislator voted on higher
education issues when you vote in the August 3
primary and in the general this November,” Hall
said.
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| Ross Beach
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| Gene Bicknell |
| Jeff Crippen |
| John C Dicus |
| William Docking |
| Terrence P Dunn |
| James R Grier, III |
| Bill Hall |
| Kenneth Havner |
| Drue Jennings |
| Jim Lowther |
| Honorable Cordell Meeks |
| Fred Merrill |
| Joe C Morris |
| Bill E Musgrave |
| Robert D Regnier |
| E S Riss |
| Honorable Richard Rogers |
| Julie Davis Richey |
| John T Stewart |
| Bill Taylor |
| Robert Taylor |
| Kurt D Watson |
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