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2014: Davis and Kansas educators

This address was a 2014 campaign page aimed at teachers and school staff. Its text is not reproduced. Schools were the core of Davis's case against Gov. Brownback, and the campaign courted educators openly.

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/sections/page/educators
Date of the original item
2014 campaign
Status
Archive note written by the Public Record editors. The campaign's original text is not reproduced.

Schools at the center

Davis introduced his running mate, former Board of Regents chair Jill Docking, on a school bus tour in October 2013. By late summer 2014, Kansas Democrats up and down the ballot were building their campaigns around school funding, and Davis said restoring classroom money would be his top priority as governor. His campaign's September ad "Tradition" made the same argument on television.

The campaign's brochure said Kansas teachers and business leaders were backing Davis. It did not name organizations, and we have not found an independent report of which teacher groups endorsed him, so none are listed here.

The dispute over the numbers

Whether schools had been cut depended on what was counted. Brownback's side said total education spending had gone up during his term. Davis's side focused on classroom funding, which it said had suffered the largest single cut in state history. Brownback's campaign also noted that Davis had voted for the 2009 and 2010 budgets, which cut school aid.

How it turned out

Davis lost the governor's race on November 4, 2014. Education stayed on his agenda: in 2018 his congressional campaign said leaders have "a moral obligation" to provide a world-class public education. See education.

Sources

  1. Lawrence Journal-World: Davis picks Jill Docking as running mate (Oct. 22, 2013)
  2. Lawrence Journal-World: Davis vows to restore school funding, but won't say how (Sept. 2, 2014)
  3. Lawrence Journal-World: Paul Davis, Kansas Democrats focus campaigns on education funding (Aug. 23, 2014)
  4. Democracy in Action: Paul Davis 2014 campaign literature (archived brochure)
  5. Daily Kos: Paul Davis campaign email and ad 'Tradition' (Sept. 13, 2014)

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