“Voters must be baffled by competing claims regarding the funding of K-12 public schools in Kansas. The Brownback administration says it is going up; most everybody else says it is going down. “Does the truth lie somewhere in the middle? We simply would say: No. “Gov. Sam Brownback and the...
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No comments Monthly Archives: October 2014
Kansas on financial path leading backwards
“A quick run through the numbers: In the just completed fiscal year 2014, state revenue dropped $688 million from the year before, and Kansas spent $329 million more than it took in. Now, three months into fiscal year 2015, revenue remains below last year’s levels, placing the state on a...
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Those of us paying attention see cuts to education looming after the election. Kansans need to have their eyes wide open like this superintendent who has verbalized what many are feeling. “In a video seen by all USD 308 employees on Friday, Hutchinson School Superintendent Shelly Kiblinger said she expects...
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Former budget director for Republican and Democratic governors, Duane Goossen, warns it’s time to foreclose on the “fiscal experiment”. These figures represent future challenges for Kansas school districts. “That promise has not been borne out by the results so far: Revenue fell $688 million in fiscal year 2014. In the...
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