The musical chairs continue at the state capitol in Topeka.   Two Kansas lawmakers who voted against school funding changes have been removed from a Kansas House committee that oversees education.

This is the second committee to be purged of critics of administration policy.  Last week three GOP lawmakers were removed from the top health-care committee because they support the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Also last week, GOP Representatives Diana Dierks of Salina and John Ewy of Jetmore, were notified they had lost their committee assignments. Their replacements voted in favor of the bill that replaced the state’s per-pupil formula for distributing aid to districts with stable “block grants” based on what districts received previously. The plan is to use the block grants for two years while the system for funding public schools is revamped.

Dierks says that when she asked why she was removed from the education committee, she was told it was for the betterment of the caucus. She was moved to the elections committee.