“”This is a simple, easy fix,’ Woods said. ‘You have it in front of you. It is entirely within the realm of possibility to keep our promise to Kansas students.’

“Justin Henry, superintendent of Goddard Unified School District 265, called on lawmakers to provide long-term stability in school funding for the first time in more than a decade.

“’When it’s not predictable,’ Henry said, ‘we hit rewind and play 11 years in a row, and we can’t go out and plan. We can talk all day about teacher quality, but if we can’t plan on how many teachers we’re even going to staff, it hurts. And you just don’t find them in July.’”
https://www.cjonline.com/…/schools-for-fair-funding-signals…

Originally posted to Facebook on 02/07/2019.