“Senate Bill 7, the controversial legislation that repeals the old school finance formula and replaces it for two years with a system of block grants to school districts, officially became law Thursday [April 2] when it was published in the Kansas Register. “For the time being, at least, school districts...
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Concordia and Twin Valley to close early due to funding
“Kansas school districts are facing financial pressures after losing $51 million they expected to receive for the current school year after Gov. Sam Brownback signed a school funding overhaul bill in March. The new school funding plan scraps the previous formula for determining state aid and replaces it with block...
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Here’s another Kansas student speaking up. Topeka West Junior “Julio Rivera just wants state lawmakers to hear how cuts to the Kansas education budget are affecting him and his younger siblings…’Kansas leaders need to hear us. We need jobs and college once we graduate. It’s up to us to make...
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