From our friends at Educate Lawrence: recently “the Kansas Senate considers cutting $2 million dollars to the Lawrence school district. Apparently unwilling to invest significant new money in our public schools, the Kansas Senate considers shuffling money within the overall education budget to meet the Kansas Supreme Court ruling on providing...
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No comments Monthly Archives: March 2014
Rep. Rhoades continues to dispute Gannon equity funding figures
It looks like those of us who did not yet have children in school or weren’t yet paying attention during the Montoy litigation may get to see how you start with an order to fix school funding, and end up with multiple rounds of litigation ending with a very specific...
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On the Senate side, there is no Gannon funding bill yet. Mark Tallman of KASB provides a helpful summary of the current proposals. We are dismayed to see the prevailing attitude that education funding must be cut to address Gannon equity. http://tallmankasb.blogspot.com/2014/03/impact-of-new-senate-republican-school.html...
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No comments Schools respond to plan to cut transportation budgets to fund Gannon equity
The current House Appropriations bill that seeks to provide the equity required by the Gannon decision proposes cutting $14 million in transportation aid. “[That proposal] is based on a 2006 Legislative Post Audit study that found school bus costs were overstated because of a flawed reimbursement formula. ‘The transportation formula systematically...
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