“Sheryl Spalding, president of the Johnson County-based Mainstream Coalition and a former Kansas legislator and member of the Blue Valley school board, doesn’t agree. She points to Article 6 of the Kansas Constitution: ‘No religious sect or sects shall control any part of the public educational funds.’ “’And yet they are giving directly to private schools,”’she said. ‘That would seem to fly in the face of what the Kansas Constitution thinks, and has since its inception, is a good idea.’ “Spalding argues tax credits are a mechanism that diverts money from state revenue to something the state wants...
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Wichita area schools seek “extraordinary” funding, districts focused on classrooms
“G.A. Buie, executive director of the United School Administrators of Kansas, said in an e-mail that the governor’s ‘comments are being made as if school districts are not already putting every dollar possible into classroom instruction.’ “Buie said the governor overlooks expenses that are necessary for learning to take place. “’I don’t believe the governor’s office understands what it takes to house, transport, feed, document, assess, counsel, supply, heat/cool and, yes, educate children every day. Almost every dollar spent in a school district directly or indirectly affects instruction,’ he said.” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article31161851.html...
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Leave a Comment Manhattan Mercury asks for money rather than talk
From an editorial in The Manhattan Mercury: Instead of talk, how about money? Sam Brownback’s education advice gets cheaper by the word. It lost a little more value Tuesday when he was offering the state’s school districts some tips on how to improve the education they deliver to their students. The governor said schools ought to invest more money in classrooms, and they ought to do it at least in part by trimming administrative costs. “I think we really have to look at our back-office operations a lot more — what it is costing us to run the...
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Leave a Comment Brownback claims school funding is sufficient
“Brownback’s comments came hours after Wichita district leaders got their first detailed look at next year’s budget, which is set at about $4 million less than last year’s expenditures. The budget raises local property taxes, freezes teacher salaries and cuts about $6.5 million in non-personnel spending. “Answering questions from reporters after the speech at the Wichita Marriott, Brownback said state funding for education – including funds for low-income and other at-risk children – is sufficient.” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article30710871.html...
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