Kansas House Republican lawmakers have a plan to fully fund Special Education at the state level. They've tied it to education savings accounts - that would give private school students up to $5,000 in public money - every year. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly told KMBC she is strongly against that on Tuesday. "That is a tactic legislators will use when they want to try and force my hand and get some thing they want," she said, "while giving me something I want. It won't work."In the hour Kelly spent at Shawnee Mission South High School Tuesday, she spoke with a few dozen people. Every one of them were impacted by the district’s special education program. Some were gifted students, others were those who needed additional physical support. Their teachers and paraeducators were also there, as were young adults who are part of Shawnee Mission's extended special education program.One table had parents of special needs children. Mike Dugan sat at that table. His daughter, Libby, is 18 and receives help from vision specialists, physical therapists, and occupational therapists. She told KMBC that her favorite part of coming to school was seeing her friends.Her parents took time out of their day to talk for a precious few minutes to the Governor about their special education experience, and why the funding is so needed.As Mike Dugan said afterward, “I don't even know how to describe it in terms of words,” he said, “because the way she's going to be fully functional in our society is her education. We know how important education is – I don’t care who it is, education will help any child become an adult.”Currently, districts are covering the tab for the special education funding that the state isn’t funding. House lawmakers have passed H Sub for SB 83, a bill to fund special education – with those education savings accounts, allowing tax payer money to be used to pay for students to attend private schools.And the governor is adamant on her stance: “I do not believe in vouchers, I believe public dollars out to go to public schools. It won't work,” she said. “What they need to do is just pull the special education funding out of that bill, and put it back in the regular budget bill.”A recent analysis showed most counties in Kansas do not have an accredited private school. This is the list of accredited private schools on file with the Kansas Department of Education, and this is the list of nonaccredited private schools on file with the Kansas Department of Education.But like Kelly making her way through the tables in the library, there is another education bill making its way through the Senate. SB 128 provides tax credits for private and homeschool students, and Senator Caryn Tyson expects to discuss it Wednesday.