EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

GAME ON FOR KANSAS SCHOOLS

Judith Deedy is one of the founding members and Executive Director of Game On for Kansas Schools, a public education grassroots advocacy group that has been working to promote sound policy and adequate funding for Kansas public schools and the children they serve since 2010. While her children were in school, she volunteered in classroom and sports activities and served as a PTA legislative chair at the elementary, middle and high school levels and an elementary PTA president. She provides frequent testimony before committees in the Kansas legislature, speaks to community organizations and participates in panels on education issues. She has been quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, the Guardian, NPR and multiple Kansas newspapers and radio and television stations. Judith grew up in small town Illinois and is a product of Illinois public schools, Yale University and the University of Michigan Law School. She moved to Kansas in 2004 with her husband, her 2-year-old daughter and 6-week old twins. Her children are now recent graduates of Kansas public schools.

BREAKOUT LEADER

VOUCHERS, COMMANDMENTS & BOOK BANS. OH, MY! STATE-MANDATED RELIGION IN PUBLIC EDUCATION

Our public schools are increasingly under attack by Christian Nationalists. From challenges to books and curricula, to trying to force Christian content and symbols into our public schools, to promoting vouchers to fund religious education, there is an organized effort to force public schools to promote Christian nationalism. There is a simultaneous and related campaign to undermine support for public schools and divert public funds to pay for private religious education without education standards and legal protections. Learn about these efforts and what you can do to protect public education in our state.