From a new report from the CBPP: “Unlike Most States, Kansas Is Still Cutting School Funding High-quality schools are a crucial building block of economic growth. They determine the quality of much of the state’s future workforce and shape the minds of future community leaders and entrepreneurs. Deep cuts in funding for schools undermine school quality in part because they limit and stymie the ability of states to implement reforms that have been shown to result in better outcomes for students, including recruiting better teachers, reducing class sizes, and extending student learning time. After the Great Recession deeply reduced...
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Lawrence perspective on Senate proposals for funding Gannon equity remedy
From our friends at Educate Lawrence: recently “the Kansas Senate considers cutting $2 million dollars to the Lawrence school district. Apparently unwilling to invest significant new money in our public schools, the Kansas Senate considers shuffling money within the overall education budget to meet the Kansas Supreme Court ruling on providing more equity between school districts. While Kansas has made the fourth-deepest cut in educational funding in the nation since the recession, the Kansas Senate now proposes to make further cuts in base per-pupil funding for virtual education, reducing funds to improve reading and math proficiency, reducing funds for...
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Leave a Comment Rep. Rhoades continues to dispute Gannon equity funding figures
It looks like those of us who did not yet have children in school or weren’t yet paying attention during the Montoy litigation may get to see how you start with an order to fix school funding, and end up with multiple rounds of litigation ending with a very specific remedy order. “The Legislature faces a July 1 deadline to close funding disparities between school districts. The Department of Education and the nonpartisan Kansas Legislative Research Department have calculated that $129 million is needed to do that. . . Rhoades still disputed that a specific figure has been...
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Leave a Comment KASB’s Mark Tallman summarizes current Senate proposals for funding Gannon equity remedy
On the Senate side, there is no Gannon funding bill yet. Mark Tallman of KASB provides a helpful summary of the current proposals. We are dismayed to see the prevailing attitude that education funding must be cut to address Gannon equity. http://tallmankasb.blogspot.com/2014/03/impact-of-new-senate-republican-school.html...
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