We hope school board members inform their local legislators about the needs of Kansas schools in the 2015 session.

“School board members from across Kansas are gearing up to fight for more funding when the state Legislature convenes on Jan. 12.

“The Kansas Association of School Boards is using a court ruling handed down last week to makes its case.

“In a web presentation for school board members, KASB Associate Executive Director Mark Tallman said school boards must press lawmakers for more funding.

“’It’s not that schools are continuing to demand more and more,’ he says. ‘What I think that we’re reacting against, and what’s very clear is, we have fallen behind kind of the historic, traditional commitment we’ve made.’
“‘Total spending on K-12 education is projected to be just 4.42 percent of total personal income in 2015 —the lowest level since 1985,’ KASB said in an op-ed piece distributed on Friday.”

http://kcur.org/post/kansas-school-boards-gear-funding-fight