Monthly Archives: January 2015

So now we’re being told that KPERS cuts aren’t cuts to education, even though during the past year we were told that KPERS funding did count as education funding. We’re also being told that education and KPERS funding are not sustainable, and the legislature will look at “structural reforms”. We...

Any discussion of Kansas test scores, achievement gaps and overall K-12 performance and funding needs that fails to explicitly acknowledge that over 50% of Kansas public school children are now low-income is fundamentally flawed. “Fellow board member Kathy Busch, R-Wichita, said the upward trend could mean schools need more resources....

We note the irony in the administration’s recent claims of increasing school funding based on including catchup payments to the underfunded KPERS, while now claiming that despite cutting $41 million in KPERS payments, K-12 education has been left untouched. Will this underfunding continue and be used as a pretext to...