“The fate of Marquette Elementary – which had nearly 130 students just a few years ago – is becoming familiar in Kansas as districts cope with declining enrollment and reduced state funding. But the dollars-and-cents reasoning behind the Smoky Valley board’s vote, which member Chris Bauer said he cast with tears in his eyes, is scant comfort to Marquette residents who fear the erosion of their community.” http://www.kansascity.com/2014/02/16/4828301/central-kansas-town-losing-last.html#storylink=cpy...
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Valley Center Superintendent asks, “Should I pay the credit card or the mortgage?”
Valley Center Superintendent Cory Gibson has a great blog. Here’s his latest installment. http://vcsupergibson.blogspot.com/2014/02/should-i-pay-credit-card-or-mortgage.html VC Super Gibson: Should I pay the Credit Card or the Mortgage? vcsupergibson.blogspot.com...
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Leave a Comment Funding for all-day kindergarten removed from Senate budget
Already this morning the Senate Ways and Means Committee has removed funding for all-day kindergarten from the Senate budget. http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/committees/ctte_s_wam_1/...
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Leave a Comment Funding for all-day kindergarten removed from House budget
The subcommittee on funding all-day kindergarten had its first meeting yesterday, but that same day the House Education Budget Committee voted in favor of Steve Huebert’s (R-Valley Center) motion to take the funding out of the budget. “Huebert said he made the motion after discussions with House GOP leaders.” Voting to remove funding were Cassidy, Grosserode, Dove, Highland, Huebert, Jones and Rothlisberg.http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/feb/13/brownbacks-proposal-fund-full-day-kindergarten-dea/...
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