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A & M issues draft efficiency recommendations

The draft report from the consultants hired by the legislature to find efficiencies has been released. Here are the education recommendations: consolidation of health insurance and switching to a high-deductible plan, more consolidation of purchasing and property and casualty insurance and spending down cash balances. (Photo credit Scott Rothschild shared via Twitter.)...
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KASB, KSSA and USA Kansas respond to revised report

Legislative Research has completed its revision of the draft of the Report of the Special Committee on K-12 Student Success (available at http://www.kasb.org/assets/Advocacy/16/K12StudentRedraft.pdf), and the Kansas Association of School Boards, the Kansas School Superintendents Association, and United School Administrators of Kansas have written a response. Here’s their response: http://www.kasb.org/assets/Advocacy/16/Response-K12Report011216.pdf....
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Walk 2016, March 11-14

Block grants freeze operating funding, state fiscal crisis casts doubt on short- and long-term funding ability, legislative committee fails to make visible progress on a rational funding formula, legislature continues assaults on courts in retaliation for school funding decisions, school board elections moved over nearly-unanimous objections by school boards, teachers demoralized by legislature, numbers of students living in poverty and with special needs rising, all while we are told our students must compete globally and achieve higher levels. This is not acceptable. Parents, teachers, school board members, school administrators, join us, walk with us and show Kansans who...
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Rep. Becker shares survey results

We think Rep. Becker’s survey results reflect how a lot of Kansans feel. Now we just need to get our legislature to vote accordingly, or get some new legislators. Thank you for sharing, Rep. Becker! As I head back to Topeka today to begin the 2016 Legislative session, I wanted to share the results of the survey that I received back from you. NEWSLETTER SURVEY RESULTS If you remember, in early November I mailed a newsletter with a short survey on a variety of issues. I was pleasantly surprised to receive over 200 surveys in return mail. I...
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