Key Votes

This bill expands the Kansas Promise Scholarship — which helps working families afford career and technical education — to include a new category of institutions that drops the nonprofit requirement. While the funding increase is welcome, this change could divert millions in public workforce training dollars to for-profit career schools with track records of poor job placement and predatory recruitment targeting the same working-class families the program is designed to help. Labor opposes this bill because public investment in workforce development should flow to institutions with proven outcomes for workers, not to those whose business model depends on exploiting them.