What grade did the 2025 Republican supermajority-controlled KS Legislature earn when it comes to supporting public education in Blue Valley? Some of the state’s most influential Republican legislators hail from Blue Valley and Johnson County. Certainly they voted for our kids and their neighborhood public schools, right? Read our summary below and tell us what you think. Here are our thoughts, as parents and community members who’ve advocated for our neighborhood public schoo

By the slimmest margin possible, Kansas voters lost their rights to a 3-day grace period on mailed ballots postmarked by Election Day. Five BV-area legislators are among those who previously voted to take away the grace period, and then voted today to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of the bill. This is just the first in a series of predicted assaults on voting rights since a MAGA supermajority claimed KsLeg in 2024.  Even more alarming: KS House Election Committee Chair, Le

In their efforts to keep the voucher-supporting, anti-tax supermajority in the KS Legislature, Americans for Prosperity has spent almost $190,000 on five Blue Valley races through Oct. 24 of this year. We won’t know AFP’s TOTAL 2024 spending on their BV-area candidates until weeks after Election Day. Total AFP spending on area candidates through Nov. 5 could exceed $250,000.  Who funds AFP? Nobody knows. Like other dark-money groups we’ve seen in this election cycle - includi

We’ve documented 11 key votes taken between 2019 and 2023 by both State Sen. Cindy Holscher (who we’ve endorsed since 2016) and Sen. Kellie Warren (who we have NEVER endorsed, nor has the other parent-led public education advocacy group in Warren’s own district, Education First Shawnee Mission). Three separate times, Warren voted FOR voucher schemes, or expansion of voucher programs that are already in place, while Holscher voted against. Remember, there’s NO public oversight

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Rep. Chris Croft, in recently-released Zoom calls with JoCo Republicans, including KsLeg candidates, “touted his success in getting...

“One of the state’s most extreme incumbents.” That’s what the KC Star Editorial Board calls state senator Kellie Warren. In Sunday’s Star, editors call Warren “an extremist running as a moderate,” and point out that neither Stand Up Blue Valley, nor local parent group Education First Shawnee Mission, have endorsed her. In fact, we have both endorsed Warren’s OPPONENT, Karen Thurlow. The Star editors note that the KsLeg veto-proof supermajority results in little compromise in

House District 8 members sent us photos of this mailer they recently received, saying “Chris Croft sure has a lot of nerve with these claims!” Chris Croft voted AGAINST our kids’ education when he voted FOR voucher schemes in 2019, 2021, and 2023. (SB 16, SB 175, HSub SB 83) Croft voted to DECREASE funding for our neighborhood public schools when he voted for irresponsibly large tax cuts (favoring ultra-rich taxpayers) that would have resulted in Brownback-style revenue plumm

Don’t be fooled by the constant campaign commercials, costly mailers, multiple texts, and hundreds of signs in medians. Kellie Warren votes AGAINST BV kids in the KS Legislature. Warren doesn’t want you to remember the multiple votes she has cast against Blue Valley kids and Johnson County interests in NON-election years. Read more here: https://www.standupbluevalley.org/blog/categories/kellie-warren   Warren is trying to mask her voting record in the KS Senate (since 2021)

Lots of dark-money groups, along with Kellie Warren herself, are working overtime to tell voters how much Warren supports public schools in the Kansas Legislature. Who has NOT said that? Not one single public education advocacy group - all of which are run by parents and volunteers in the community, not by outside groups that don't reveal who their financial backers are. Stand Up Blue Valley and Education First Shawnee Mission - both all-volunteer parent organizations operati

Local MAGA incumbent legislators Kellie Warren, Carl Turner, and Chris Croft - and groups that back them - are flooding our mailboxes....

Some Blue Valley legislators vote against our kids' schools.

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