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Stakeholders press committee for child care capacity, mental health, broadband, school-food and CPR funding
Summary
Advocates urged the committee to fund childcare expansion, school-based mental health and telehealth, E‑Rate broadband matching, child-nutrition copay elimination, CPR training kits and other education priorities.
A series of outside witnesses delivered brief oral testimony during the public-comment portion of the Committee on K‑12 Education Budget. Presenters summarized written testimony filed with the committee and highlighted line items or enhancements they urged members to support.
Thrive Allen County (Thrive Kansas) asked the committee to fund a Child Care Capacity Accelerator at $10,000,000 from the State General Fund to support local projects that expand slots, including innovative rural models. The witness emphasized a backlog of approved local projects and gave examples of multi‑county home‑based networks that had used prior capacity funds.
SparkWheel (Ethan Sperling and Kelly Stanford) described a request to expand their in‑school integrated student supports…
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