“Both the executive and legislative branches of state government also have made thinly veiled threats to the state’s appellate courts if they order more funding for K-12 schools in Kansas. “The state already has made appointments to the Kansas Court of Appeals more political by eliminating the role of the...
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No comments Monthly Archives: July 2015
Youth endowment fund being depleted by legislature
“Children’s advocates raised concerns Wednesday that the state is endangering long-term funding for programs meant to benefit Kansas kids. “The Kansas Endowment for Youth Fund will drop to a record low amount at the end of fiscal year 2017, according to the advocacy group Kansas Action for Children, under the...
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“All of this is all taking a toll on recruiting and retaining teachers, and there’s mounting evidence that Kansas teachers are becoming disenchanted. And out-of-state districts are taking advantage… “Right now there are some 700 openings in the state for teachers and non-teaching staff. Wilson says that’s double the number...
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No comments Stay on school funding will be short-lived
Please read this entire editorial and be more than an onlooker. “No amount of condemnation of ‘unelected, activist judges’ by Gov. Sam Brownback and GOP legislative leaders will change the facts, which are evident not only to school administrators, school boards, teachers and parents across the state but also to...
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