From the new school finance bill prohibiting state funding of extra curricular activities and limiting funding to local funding: New Sec. 19. (a) No school district shall expend, use or transfer any moneys received by such school district as part of the general state aid disbursement to such school district...
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No comments Monthly Archives: April 2016
Reeser and Hoheisel challenge Osterman
“Both Reeser and Hoheisel are critical of the state’s finances under Gov. Sam Brownback. “’You get the feeling that people really want to start returning to our traditional Kansas moderate viewpoints and that includes strong schools and balancing the budget,’ Reeser said Monday. ‘If we want to reverse the extremist...
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Rep. Highland is supporting another ALEC neo-voucher, “Education Spending Accounts” in a new funding formula. “A proposed new Kansas school funding formula would allow parents to use tax funds for private schools, and it would prohibit school districts from spending state aid money on extracurricular activities… Under the bill, parents...
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“’The direction the state is going, it just seems to be downtrending, and the Legislature and governor appear to be doubling down on a bad strategy,’ he said, explaining that he has been complaining about the negative results of the state government’s actions for some time. ‘Someone said, ‘So why...
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