Nov. 21, 2013
(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Nov. 18, 2013)
What could be nicer than the governor’s plan to spend $9 million of Kansas’ $48 million in surplus federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) money on a statewide program to boost reading skills for Kansas children in specifically non-school programs?
Well, this being the Statehouse, where virtually nothing is just “nice,” already this new idea is being dissected. That’s what happens in the Statehouse.
The idea is aimed, though relatively loosely, at children who qualify for free or reduced price lunches under federal programs where the feds pay for those free school lunches.