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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Districts Explore Suing the State
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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Game On team, please understand there is a nationwide population decline in school-age children, leading to declining enrollment in schools. Vouchers in Kansas would only add to this problem, and issues like the continued underfunding of special education also put extra financial pressures on our schools at a time when...
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