When you see postcards touting the high priority the legislature has given education as elections near, remember this story, which compiles the impact of the school finance bill on several different districts. “We are running low in our contingency reserve and will have to cut two positions in our career and tech ed programs at Bluestem high school for 2014-15. I have been working in Kansas schools for over 30 years and can definitively say that the legislative support of schools and students in our state is at the lowest point I have seen it in that time. The kids in our schools today are being seriously shortchanged!”
– Randy Rivers, Superintendent
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