From a new report from the CBPP:
“Unlike Most States, Kansas Is Still Cutting School Funding
High-quality schools are a crucial building block of economic growth. They determine the quality of much of the state’s future workforce and shape the minds of future community leaders and entrepreneurs. Deep cuts in funding for schools undermine school quality in part because they limit and stymie the ability of states to implement reforms that have been shown to result in better outcomes for students, including recruiting better teachers, reducing class sizes, and extending student learning time.
After the Great Recession deeply reduced their revenues, many states cut K-12 funding. By the 2011-12 school year, 34 states were providing less general school funding per student than before the recession, after adjusting for inflation. Schools nationwide eliminated over 300,000 K-12 teaching and other positions.[7] In Kansas, the funding cuts were particularly deep: 14 percent per student. Even prior to the recession, Kansas ranked slightly below the national average for school spending.[8] Impacts of the cuts on Kansas were significant, including school closings and larger class sizes.[9] Since then, with the economy slowly improving, most states have begun restoring some of the lost funding. Last school year, 18 states raised general state funding per student, relative to inflation, and this year 29 states did so. (Most states, though, still spend less per student than before the recession.)
Kansas, though, has continued to cut. Over the last two school years, both of which were affected by the tax cuts, Kansas has cut general K-12 funding by another 2 percent per student. Governor Brownback’s proposed budget would cut funding by another 1.8 percent, leaving it 17 percent below pre-recession levels, adjusted for inflation.[10] (See Figure 2.)”
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“Unlike Most States, Kansas Is Still Cutting School Funding
High-quality schools are a crucial building block of economic growth. They determine the quality of much of the state’s future workforce and shape the minds of future community leaders and entrepreneurs. Deep cuts in funding for schools undermine school quality in part because they limit and stymie the ability of states to implement reforms that have been shown to result in better outcomes for students, including recruiting better teachers, reducing class sizes, and extending student learning time.
After the Great Recession deeply reduced their revenues, many states cut K-12 funding. By the 2011-12 school year, 34 states were providing less general school funding per student than before the recession, after adjusting for inflation. Schools nationwide eliminated over 300,000 K-12 teaching and other positions.[7] In Kansas, the funding cuts were particularly deep: 14 percent per student. Even prior to the recession, Kansas ranked slightly below the national average for school spending.[8] Impacts of the cuts on Kansas were significant, including school closings and larger class sizes.[9] Since then, with the economy slowly improving, most states have begun restoring some of the lost funding. Last school year, 18 states raised general state funding per student, relative to inflation, and this year 29 states did so. (Most states, though, still spend less per student than before the recession.)
Kansas, though, has continued to cut. Over the last two school years, both of which were affected by the tax cuts, Kansas has cut general K-12 funding by another 2 percent per student. Governor Brownback’s proposed budget would cut funding by another 1.8 percent, leaving it 17 percent below pre-recession levels, adjusted for inflation.[10] (See Figure 2.)”
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