“Scott Frank, the audit division’s director, will offer the refresher course on the audit. ‘It’s a very strong, statistically significant relationship,’ Frank said.

“That study is unlikely to sway legislators like Rep. Jerry Lunn. He is an Overland Park Republican on the student success committee who took note of a $300 million increase in K-12 spending in the past three years and simultaneous decline in Kansas students’ performance on NAEP exams. In the past few years, Kansas’ scores on reading and math tests have fallen closer to national averages.

“Lunn said it didn’t make sense for the education community to simply say, ‘We need more money.’”

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