“The fate of Marquette Elementary – which had nearly 130 students just a few years ago – is becoming familiar in Kansas as districts cope with declining enrollment and reduced state funding. But the dollars-and-cents reasoning behind the Smoky Valley board’s vote, which member Chris Bauer said he cast with...
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No comments Monthly Archives: March 2014
Valley Center Superintendent asks, “Should I pay the credit card or the mortgage?”
Valley Center Superintendent Cory Gibson has a great blog. Here’s his latest installment. http://vcsupergibson.blogspot.com/2014/02/should-i-pay-credit-card-or-mortgage.html VC Super Gibson: Should I pay the Credit Card or the Mortgage? vcsupergibson.blogspot.com...
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No comments Funding for all-day kindergarten removed from Senate budget
Already this morning the Senate Ways and Means Committee has removed funding for all-day kindergarten from the Senate budget. http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/committees/ctte_s_wam_1/...
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No comments Funding for all-day kindergarten removed from House budget
The subcommittee on funding all-day kindergarten had its first meeting yesterday, but that same day the House Education Budget Committee voted in favor of Steve Huebert’s (R-Valley Center) motion to take the funding out of the budget. “Huebert said he made the motion after discussions with House GOP leaders.” Voting...
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