Shannon Kimball is a fourteen year member of the Lawrence District School Board and a Government Relations Specialist for the Kansas Association of School Boards. Shannon has made a career in education law and does legislative advocacy and training with local school boards. She described how public education is being threatened on the state and federal levels. These threats are a result of culture wars, the voucher movement, micromanaging, funding reduction, and deliberate destabilization. Shannon cited statistics to counter the argument that the Department of Education is a bloated bureaucracy. Citizens need to be informed of these threats and understand the value of public education to our communities.
