In Valley Center, [the governor’s block grant proposal] could have very negative consequences that should concern parents and community members. Since 2010, Valley Center schools have increased an average of 101 FTE (full time equivalency) students per year. In other words, each year we see an increase equivalent to 101...
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No comments Monthly Archives: February 2015
Goossen: Governor’s Budget Misses the Mark
From Duane’s latest blog: Governor’s Budget Misses the Mark “The governor is also proposing serious spending cuts, especially to public education. Kansas classrooms do not get more money. Rather, $127 million comes out…The cuts to education and other services are damaging, but will get even worse if more revenue is...
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Dale Dennis of the Kansas State Department of Education shows Brownback’s education proposal represents a large cut in operational spending, but Sen. Ty Masterson, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means prefers to focus on overall spending. “Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposed budget represents about a $127.4 million cut in schools’...
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“’This has been tried in any number of states,” said [Bruce Baker, a school finance professor at Rutgers University who previously taught at The University of Kansas], who has testified in school funding lawsuits across the country and on behalf of the plaintiffs in Kansas’ ongoing school finance lawsuit, Gannon...
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