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To kick off the inauguration week on January 7th, Governor Kelly's campaign is partnering with local charities across the state and is encouraging Kansans to become involved with these charities and participate in the #KSDayofService.
In the leadup to the midterm elections, pundits predicted a red wave, even a tsunami, based on polls, historical precedent, and steep gas and grocery prices. But I had my doubts. I spent the weeks before the elections talking to voters and traveling on the AFT Votes bus, rolling through a dozen states with more than 50 stops. In a year when kitchen table issues, democracy and our freedoms were on the ballot, many people told me that the elections came down to a choice between, on the one side, election deniers and extremists stoking fear, and on the other, problem-solvers working to help the country move forward. Many races were close, but Americans turned the tide from a red wave to a swell of support for progress and problem-solvers. Read the full column here.
Congratulations to the faculty and academic staff at KU who today have officially announced the organizing campaign to create the United Academics of the University of Kansas (UAKU)!
UAKU would represent over 1,500 full-time and part-time tenured and nontenure-track faculty; teaching, research, clinical and online professors; lecturers; curators; librarians; scientists who conduct grant-funded research; and other categories of faculty and academic staff. The union would be affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors.
AFT Kansas and Kansas NEA have released the following joint statement regarding the events of the televised debate on Tuesday, 25 October between Sharice Davids and Amanda Adkins. You can find a video of the debate at FOX4 Kansas City.
If you are unable to view the embedded pdf, you can download it at this link.
We will continue to update this page as we complete our evaluations of candidates in the upcoming election.
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