Missouri-Kansas Line

 Last month, we had another great interview on KKFI!  Linda Trautman joined me and we discussed felony disenfranchisement.  You can stream that April 12 episode at this link and also catch our upcoming episodes, Understanding Gerrymandering (May 17 with Brian Hollenbeck) and History of Voter Suppression (June 7 with Russell Brooker)

  The Kansas Board of Regents has validated existing reading standards and called for more math to be taught to high-school students. They also want students to receive help applying for financial aid and taking dual-enrollment high school courses. Fine–but with American democracy on life support, where is civic education, I asked in  last week’s column , which got picked up by Yahoo News from the Topeka Capital Journal?