The Kansas Policy Institute, the Koch-funded local “stink tank” affiliate of the State Policy Network which pushes the ALEC agenda including privatization of public schools recently sent a piece to legislators claiming that there is no correlation between funding and achievement in schools. There are multiple things wrong with their...
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No comments Monthly Archives: January 2016
Panel declines action on school board conflict of interest bill
Here’s some good news. “A special legislative committee agreed Friday not to recommend any changes to laws governing conflicts of interest for school board members, effectively killing a bill that was introduced during the 2015 session… “House Bill 2345 would have prohibited anyone from serving on a school board if...
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We’ve heard a lot recently about how Kansas students did on the most recent NAEP test, particularly the number of Kansas students scoring “proficient” but haven’t heard anyone acknowledge that the NAEP proficiency standard is actually set significantly above what is commonly understood as “proficient”. We have talked about this...
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Valley Center Superintendent Cory Gibson describes legislative requests and asks readers to connect the dots. We see merit pay for teachers, school consolidation and cuts to athletic programs but no real work on a new funding formula as we “connect the dots”. We also see a lot of administrative effort...
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