“What does the recent decision to fund schools using a block grant system say about the health of Kansas? The block grant is not a grant at all; rather, it is a cut to essential revenue we count on to fund schools across the state. The block grant left us...
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No comments Monthly Archives: May 2015
Skyline seeking relief from emergency fund
Skyline Superintendent Mike Sanders “has requested that the State Finance Council consider providing $118,000 from the Extraordinary Needs Fund to help cover that amount that was taken out of the current school budget from the Local Option Budget and Capital Outlay state aid. “Without this $118,000, USD 438 employees will...
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Here’s a report from KASB on the SBOE’s decision to put off a vote on the use of non-certified teachers indefinitely. A proposal to allow the state’s innovative districts to hire non-licensed people to teach was sent back for more work on Thursday after numerous educators spoke against the plan....
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No comments KPI distributing misleading information on funding
From our friends at Schools for Fair Funding: Kansas Policy Institute (KPI) is distributing charts and figures that are misleading. For increases for schools in a three year period KPI uses 2013-14 as the base year to compute increases. This is before the court ordered increase in equalization adopted LAST...
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