Devin 'Brick' Wilson @ksucats96@kcmo.social

"NEW: More details on the Keystone oil spill cleanup near the Kansas-Nebraska border. Trucks haul the oil-drenched soil to a landfill near Omaha. Crews are building a five-acre pond to continue treating contaminated creek water." – Celia Llopis-Jepsen, KCUR
https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-02-15/ice-muck-and-a-480-million-price-tag-the-keystone-oil-spill-cleanup-carries-on-in-kansas

Last Tuesday evening from Shawnee Mission Park looking southwest at incoming storms right before it started raining. (enhanced)

NEW: The operator of the Keystone pipeline says bad welding and other problems caused the "instantaneous rupture" that gushed out over Kansas native prairie, cropland and into a creek.
Celia Llopis-Jepsen, KCUR
https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-02-09/keystone-pipeline-operator-says-faulty-welding-and-other-problems-led-to-the-kansas-oil-spill

Let your legislators know that #Vouchers are wrong for Kansas.

"What's the situation like in Washington County weeks after the Keystone pipeline spilled nearly 600,000 gallons of crude oil here? We take you there to find out." Celia Llopis-Jepsen, KMUW
https://www.kmuw.org/2023-02-02/two-months-after-the-keystones-biggest-oil-spill-residents-of-a-kansas-county-wonder-whats-next

17) Public schools are required to provide access to physical education and physical fitness programs.
18) Public schools are required to provide access to sex education for students.

Please note that this list is not exhaustive, and there may be other requirements depending on the state and local laws.
– ChatGPT, retrieved 01/28/2023

#ksleg #ksed #schoolchoice #vouchers #SchoolVouchers #SegregationCoupons #FullyFundSPED #SchoolVouchers #SegregationCoupons #FullyFundSPED

13) Public schools are required to provide a secular education and cannot promote any particular religious doctrine.
14) Public schools are required to provide extracurricular activities, such as sports and clubs, that private schools are not required to provide.
15) Public schools are required to provide bilingual education services to students who are not fluent in English.
16) Public schools are required to provide certain safety protocols, such as lockdown drills and emergency plans.

10) Health and safety regulations such as emergency drills, and immunizations requirement.
11) Public schools are required to provide certain standardized testing that private schools are not.
12) Public schools are required to have a certain level of transparency and accountability to the public through publicly available budgets, board meetings, and other information.

4) Meals to students who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
5) Transportation to and from school for eligible students.
6) Curriculum alignment with state standards
7) Graduation and dropout rate reporting to the state
8) Publicly funded and open to all regardless of religion, gender, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.
9) English Language Learner (ELL) services for students who need support to learn the language.

So, I asked ChatGPT to list some things that public schools are required to provide for students that private schools are not required to provide.

Public Schools are required to provide...

1) Free education to all students, regardless of family income or background.
2) Special education services to students with disabilities.
3) Compliance with state and federal laws, such as those prohibiting discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin....

UPDATE: More than 85% of the oil has been recovered from the Keystone spill, TC Energy says. And, the Wash. Co. News reports the Keystone is by far the county's biggest source of local tax revenue: https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-01-18/crews-have-cleaned-up-most-of-the-oil-that-spilled-out-of-the-keystone-pipeline-in-kansas #ksleg #oilandgas #kansas
By Celia Llopis-Jepsen, KCUR

Celia Llopis-Jepsen writes from KCUR
Here's what we know so far about whether the state, fed & county governments will recover their costs for the Keystone pipeline oil spill. Plus, other emerging details about the situation:
https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-01-13/the-keystone-operator-must-repay-some-not-all-of-the-tax-dollars-spent-on-its-kansas-oil-spill

Crews divert Kansas creek in the race to clean Keystone pipeline spill and prevent further pollution
KCUR | By Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Published January 5, 2023 at 2:11 PM CST

https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-01-05/crews-are-diverting-a-kansas-creek-as-they-race-to-clean-an-oil-spill-and-prevent-further-pollution

... when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."

Sagan, Carl. (1995). "The demon-haunted world: Science as a candle in the dark." Random House.

"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues;

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

Sagan, Carl. (1995). "The demon-haunted world: Science as a candle in the dark." Random House.

Even as Keystone pipeline reopens, drone ban remains in effect over Kansas oil spill site
Andrew Bahl, Topeka Capital-Journal
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/environment/2023/01/04/as-keystone-pipeline-reopens-after-kansas-spill-drone-ban-in-effect/69773085007/

The Keystone pipeline is back in business while the Kansas oil spill cleanup continues
KCUR | By Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Published December 30, 2022 at 10:11 AM CST
https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-12-30/the-keystone-pipeline-is-back-in-business-while-the-kansas-oil-spill-cleanup-continues

Company: Regulators OK reopening of Kansas pipeline segment
By John Hanna, AP December 22, 2022
https://apnews.com/article/business-nebraska-kansas-climate-and-environment-f4894d09430ac4a0ca32b65a44a42358