“Final points: these are total amounts, not per pupil amounts. Since 2009, statewide headcount enrollment has increased by nearly 19,000 students (4.0 percent). Students eligible for free meals, who are much more likely to have additional learning challenges requiring more resources, increased by over 30,000. Special education students, who require...
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KNEA Blog Post on Tax “Kerfuffle” in the KS Senate
Here’s a helpful summary of recent happenings in the Kansas legislature. Originally posted to Facebook on 01/29/2019....
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“But now we have dissenters who say we never wanted to go to the Super Bowl anyway. That was all a pipe dream and we should just settle for what we have. They want to change the goal by passing a constitutional amendment that says the Legislature decides when the...
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Game On submitted testimony in favor of SB 44 and volunteered to move our oral testimony to next week to allow the committee to accommodate all the proponents. This bill is Governor Kelly’s school funding plan and includes the inflation adjustment the state needs to adopt during the phase-in of...
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