KASB’s Mark Tallman has a new post on the history of Kansas educational outcomes and funding. He concludes, yes, funding does matter. We ask why we keep having to answer that question. https://kasb.org/blog/school-finance-questions-student-outcomes-followed-changes-in-funding/ Originally posted on Facebook 3/21/19...
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Update on the evening of Thursday, March 21st
The House K-12 Education Budget Committee met and promptly voted down the governor’s plan, which had already passed the Senate. They then voted to pass two bad bills. One essentially has much of the policy from HB 2395, and the other has their funding plan, which only includes two years of funding and omits the CPI adjustment moving forward. As Rep. Dietrich explained in moving to pass the second bill out (and we’re paraphrasing), the committee is stacked and they don’t have the votes to fix the bills so they needed to just get the bills out of...
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Leave a Comment KNEA provides update on action in House K-12 Education Budget Committee
This is a very helpful summary of what happened in the House K-12 Education Budget Committee yesterday. Please contact your representative and tell him or her to vote no on House Sub HB 2395 and House Sub SB 16. These bills take us in the wrong direction and further from ending the Gannon litigation. Instead they should be supporting the governor’s plan for funding our schools, which has passed the Senate but was voted down by the committee yesterday. If you don’t know who your representative is, you can use this link: www.ksleglookup.org. They plan to debate these...
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Leave a Comment SMSD corrects misinformation in House K-12 Education Budget Committee
We have a lot of thoughts on our recent experience testifying in a hearing that was supposed to be on SB 142-the governor’s plan for funding the inflation adjustment that appears to be the only hurdle between us and a constitutionally adequate school finance plan. One noteworthy occurrence was when Rep. Thomas asked the Kansas PTA citizen advocate a question about raises given to Shawnee Mission employees in 2018. First, we note the questioner was Rep. Thomas who you may recall “won the 26th District seat in the Kansas House of Representatives despite being arrested and charged with...
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