We agree with this editorial completely. “A three-judge panel just told Gov. Sam Brownback and the Legislature what most school districts [and the Game On team] already knew – that the block-grant funding bill flunks the test for adequacy and equity. “The governor and lawmakers tried to do an end...
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Court strikes key provisions of block grant system
“A three-judge district court panel ruled Friday that the state’s new block grant system of funding schools is unconstitutional, and it ordered the state to immediately pay nearly $49.6 million to local school districts to restore money that was cut from the current year’s budget when lawmakers passed a new...
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Here’s another cut to education. “Kansas school districts this year will get less than half the monetary incentive they expected from the state as part of a 2012 initiative to enhance career and technical education. “A memo sent to school districts from the Kansas State Department of Education last week...
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No comments Judges not fooled by funding maneuvers
“The judges fortunately were not fooled. ‘Though promoted as a change and improvement in K-12 funding,’ they wrote, the new law amounts to ‘no more than a freeze’ on school districts’ operational funding. “Any apparent increases, they added, stem from a legislative maneuver to add the state’s contribution to teacher...
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