In this week’s Gannon v. Kansas decision, the Shawnee County District Court panel applied the Rose standards articulated in the Supreme Court opinion to determine whether Kansas’s K-12 public education system is adequately funded. The court held that funding at current levels is constitutionally inadequate, stating: “it is fair and reasonable to believe, as highly true, from all the evidence advanced in this case emanating from these knowledgeable people, that these educational goals, these Rose standards, are not met, and will not be met, by the current level of state supported educational funding.” Gannon, p. 92. The decision...
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Topeka Capital Journal looks at schools before and after the recession
This is not no big deal. As parents and teachers, we have seen these cuts and other cuts, yet many politicians act like these are figments of our imaginations. “Regardless of the contentious political debate, what is clear is that Kansas schools have, since 2009, made drastic cuts to many parts of their operations. “Many eliminated jobs, cut classroom budgets for teachers to buy supplies and discontinued all or almost all of their field trips, unless paid for by parent-teacher organizations. Some asked parents to supply office paper and cleaning supplies for the schools and their offices. “Topeka...
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Leave a Comment We need to speak up loudly and clearly on behalf of Kansas schools and students
Are you ready to speak up loudly and clearly on behalf of Kansas schools and students? We are. Join us, and bring your friends. “A court decision this week looks like a win for Kansas schoolchildren, but shameful behavior by politicians already has rendered the achievement somewhat hollow. “Three Shawnee District Court judges affirmed what previous rulings have found, and what researchers, educators and parents have long contended: Students in well-funded schools gain better educational outcomes, and Kansas is cheating its children and its future by inadequately financing public schools… “The politicians responsible for undermining education in Kansas...
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The Prairie Village Post reported NE Johnson County legislator and education advocate responses to the Gannon ruling. “Though it is by no means definitive since it will almost certainly be appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court by the state, yesterday’s ruling from a three-judge panel in Shawnee County calling the state’s current K-12 funding ‘inadequate from any rational perspective’ is sure to cast a long shadow over discussions about how to deal with the coming budget crisis. “Here’s what a number of local legislators and education advocates had to say about the ruling: “Rep. Barbara Bollier, District 21,...
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