“So what happens when your costs go up? Well, then you have the freedom to cut spending wherever you want. Maybe you can quit busing kids to school, or cut staffing for your ESL students. “Isn’t freedom a wonderful thing? “What legislators are calling budget freedom is, in reality, forcing...
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KASB provides information on new KS Assessment scores
The new Kansas Assessment scores will be released soon. Here’s information from KASB on what they mean. “Kansas has made its reading and math tests much tougher by raising expectations, which means that performance will look lower. The new tests measure more than just knowing the basic facts of reading,...
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No comments Constitutionally adequate isn’t good enough; neither is unconstitutional
Perfectly said in Texas, applies equally to Kansas. “Constitutionally adequate” isn’t good enough, and unconstitutional really isn’t good enough. “The state’s lawyers downplayed the importance of money to a first-class education in their presentation to the state justices. ‘Money isn’t pixie dust,’ Craft said. ‘Funding is no guarantee of better...
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So far, this can’t happen in Kansas because we have stricter rules on charters. Kansas’ ALEC legislators and their supporters would like to change that. And now we have corporate tax credit scholarships that will also funnel money to private schools that would otherwise go to the state general fund...
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