Is this what we want for our children? Wichita ▪ Drawing from contingency reserves ▪ Eliminating positions through attrition ▪ 10 percent reduction to non-personnel budgets ▪ Exploring mill levy increase and/or special assessment tax for new Southeast High School Andover ▪ Increasing fees (enrollment, pay-to-play, transportation, marching band uniforms)...
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Districts bemoan block grants
“Usually by this time of year school districts in Kansas know how much money they’re going to get for next year and they can spend the summer working on a detailed budget. “This is not any year. “The legislature is nowhere near passing a budget and last week a court...
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This article provides some background and some ideas about what the future holds as the Gannon case proceeds. “In 2005, during battles over the last school finance lawsuit, the Kansas Supreme Court threatened to close the state’s schools unless the Legislature appropriated more money, saying it could not allow the...
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“School officials across Kansas say they are cutting programs, raising fees and tightening budgets in other ways in response to an overhaul of the state’s education finance system. “In Valley Center, the grass outside school buildings will grow a little higher this year as summer maintenance positions are eliminated. “In...
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