“KASB is encouraging board members to take the time to fill out and return this survey. As you answer the questions, please take the time to ask why these questions are being asked. “Does the fact that your brother drives a school bus in Leoti affect your ability to make decisions in the best interest of the students of Lawrence? The legislation that was introduced last year would have restricted anyone who has a relative who works for KSDE or ANY Kansas school district from serving on their local school board.” Read more here: http://heimkasb.blogspot.com/2015/09/do-we-trust-kansas-voters-reading.html...
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Johnson and Douglas County suspended voters
Here are the lists of suspended voters from the League of Women Voters in Johnson County and Douglas County. Please see if you recognize names on the list; there are a lot of high school and college age people who may not know their registrations were unsuccessful. These lists are being purged per an order from Secretary of State Kris Kobach. http://lwvjoco.org/voter-info-2/voter-suspense-list/ http://lawrenceleague.com/files/Suspense_list_Douglas_County_8-28-15_by_city.pdf...
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Leave a Comment Schools forced to absorb student increases
“[T]he 49,498 students in prekindergarten through 12th grade represent the largest enrollment in more than 10 years. Area districts including Goddard, Maize, Andover, Haysville, Derby and Valley Center reported their own increases. “Higher enrollment used to lead to more funding from Topeka, but the 2015 Legislature repealed the long-standing school-finance formula and kept funding at 2014-15 levels. And a state panel set a threshold of a 2 percent enrollment increase to qualify for help from a new ‘extraordinary needs’ fund. It also deferred USD 259’s request for $980,000 more aid related to the influx of refugee families placed...
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Leave a Comment Legislators seek info on school board members’ families’ ties to districts
We hoped common sense had prevailed when a bill that would prohibit people from serving on a school board if they had a relative who works for any school district in the state failed to move out of committee. Now the legislature is surveying current school board members. “Lynn Rogers, a member of the Wichita school board, said that unless the bill is changed significantly, ‘there’s hardly a businessman on main street’ who wouldn’t be disqualified by this restriction… “Tom Krebs, spokesman for the Kansas Association of School Boards, said his organization was encouraging school board members to...
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