It’s Fact Check Friday! From Kansas Association of School Boards “FACT CHECK FRIDAY: CLASSROOM FUNDING GAINS CAN’T KEEP UP Kansas districts face a $440.4 million special education funding shortfall in FY 2026. Meanwhile, flexible classroom operating aid has grown by just $116.5 million since FY 2009. That’s a shortfall nearly...
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Who Pays for What the State Stops Funding?
We don’t think people fully understand how much the Special Education shortfall is currently hurting our schools and the children they serve and how much worse it would get under a Ty Masterson governorship. From Moderate Kansas “An inconvenient truth: decisions made in Topeka can drive up your property taxes,...
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It’s Fact Check Friday! The Special Education funding shortfall is a serious problem our legislature has been unwilling to address. About $1,000 of every student’s Base State Aid is now going to fill that shortfall. What would your district do with an additional $1,000 per student? From Kansas Association of...
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Johnson County districts are taking a stand against the ongoing underfunding of special education which is negatively impacting all students. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1QdLReScEs/?mibextid=wwXIfr From Johnson County Post “BREAKING NEWS: Four Johnson County school districts are banding together to explore possibly suing the state of Kansas over what they call a years-long failure...
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