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Chris Gill

A-F Improved Districts by County 2018
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PBS Ruckus: KPI President Dave Trabert Proposes Student-focused Response to Supreme Court Ruling on School Funding.
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Audio: Dave Trabert on Kansas Supreme Court Gannon Ruling
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2017 Public Education Fact Book
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Tax Change Recap
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Government’s Entitlement Mentality – Part 2
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States That Spend Less Tax Less
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September Jobs Numbers Show Kansas Continuing To Become More Competitive Post-Tax Reform
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Tax Reform Has Given Majority of Kansans Tax Relief, New Data Shows
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KPERS Debt Created under Previous Administrations
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Far From Cash-Strapped, Universities & Many State Agencies Continue To Build Significant Cash Reserves
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KDOT Spending Higher in 2015 and 2016 than in Prior Years
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Expenses Up, Enrollment Down, and a Highly-Paid Staff at Kansas City Kansas Community College
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Media Ignores Some Good News in August Jobs Numbers
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Big Pay Increases at KC Kansas Schools
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More School Pay Increases: Some Big, Some Small
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Kansas gradually becoming more competitive on job growth, June numbers show
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Students and Taxpayers Bear the Costs of Generous Pay Packages at Johnson County Community College
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State school funding ranks high in Kansas
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Payroll Records Suggest Inefficient Spending at Kansas Turnpike Authority
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April 2016 Private Sector Jobs Update: Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
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Why are property taxes so high?
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Kansas Makes Significant Income Gains over Missouri Post-Tax Reform
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2015 KPERS report includes 213 new pension ‘millionaires’
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Press Release: New Poll: Taxpayers demand efficiency in schools, oppose new taxes for schools funding
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2015 Property Tax Allocation: 99% Local
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Kansas More Competitive since Tax Reform
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Guest Post: Gannon Implications
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Senate Commerce Committee Testimony SB361
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Press Release: Statement on Supreme Court School Finance Equity Ruling
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December Jobs Update
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Guest Post: A Medicaid Expansion Offer the States Should Refuse
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Efficiency Study, Governor’s Budget Report Offer Many Options to Balance State Budget
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November Jobs Update
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Report by attorneys for Schools For Fair Funding fails in attempt to discredit KPI’s At-Risk study
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Survey Finds Kansans Misled on School Spending
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Low-income students stuck on hamster wheel of low proficiency
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KASB says there is no causal relationship between money and outcomes, so why keep bringing it up?
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CBPP pushes political viewpoint as economic analysis
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October Jobs Update
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KPI and THF on Obamacare and Kansas
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KPI Paper – At-Risk Funding: Increased Money Fails to Increase Achievement
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KPI Analysis: Top Ten School Funding Points
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September Jobs Update
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The reality of school spending and achievement
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August Jobs Update
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New School Payroll Listings on KansasOpenGov.org
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KC Star repeats bogus claim on school funding
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KCEG abuses the truth on school funding…again.
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2015 ACT Results Map
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July Jobs Update
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New survey shows 71% of Johnson County residents oppose property tax increase
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June Jobs Update
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School funding decision ignores facts and the Supreme Court
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Medicaid Expansion Debate Should Deal With Facts, Not Falsehoods
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Maintenance of Effort Requirements: The Federal Takeover of State Budgets
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King v. Burwell Decided: Is It 2015 or 1984?
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April Jobs Update
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New Survey Shows Kansas Business Owners Feeling Increasingly Positive about State Business Climate
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Could King v. Burwell Spell the End of Obamacare as We Know It?
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Q1 2015 Jobs Update
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Guest Post: Kansas Excise Tax Hike Proposal a Bad Choice
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KC Star misleads again on Kansas economic growth
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Representative Pompeo on Reining in the Federal Government
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New estimates show tax revenue still running well ahead of inflation
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Media is snowblind to school “budget cuts” and scheduling realities
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2014 City and County Payrolls Added to KansasOpenGov.Org
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State aid to Shawnee, Douglas and Jefferson counties increase under block grants
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State aid to Butler and Sedgwick counties to increase under block grants
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Survey of Wichita voters on municipal tax and spending measures
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Kansas beats Missouri in private sector job growth
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2015 Public Education Factbook
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Guest Post: King v. Burwell: What State Lawmakers Should Do
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Patrick Parkes on Medicaid Expansion & Obamacare
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If Quality Healthcare Is the Goal, Medicaid Expansion Isn’t the Answer
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Business Perceptions of the Economic Impact of State and Local Government Regulation
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At least $300 million in K-12 cash reserves potentially available
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Are mandatory post-secondary individual plans the answer?
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Turnpike Payroll Raises Question of Pension Spiking
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Resolving school district spending variances could yield hundreds of millions in savings
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Better outcomes at a better price in Johnson County: USD 232 De Soto and USD 231 Gardner-Edgerton
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December Jobs Update
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Steve Anderson on Healing the Kansas Budget
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School districts overstate the impact of SB 71
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School funding controversy is about entitlement, not need
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Judicial panel used cherry-picked data in Gannon decision
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The philosophy and research supporting at-risk funding – second in a series
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Common Core influence swings testing pendulum
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KCEG / ITEP report on tax fairness uses flawed methodology
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Gov. Brownback budget proposal: a lot to like but a few tax disappointments
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Better Service, Better Price: How privatization can streamline government, improve services, and reduce costs for Kansas taxpayers.
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It’s all about the money
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At Risk School Funding 101
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School districts budget large spending increases this year
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November Jobs Update
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Creating the Education Finance Act
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County Property Tax and Population Comparison 1997-2014
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2014 Public Education FactBook
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Carve Outs For The Few? Or, Lower Taxes For The Many?
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New Survey: Kansans Remain Misinformed Regarding K-12 Finance
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Responsible journalists don’t choose sides
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2014 Greenbook
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KPI Analysis – 5 Year Kansas Budget Plan
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KPI Paper – A Legislators Budget Guide
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Kansas Medicaid Expansion by the Numbers: Is it Really a “Free Lunch?”
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Reaction to Kansas Supreme Court Ruling on Gannon School Finance Case
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2013 Public Education FactBook
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Student-Focused Funding Solutions
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Preventing Bankruptcy in the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
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KPI Analysis – A Historical Perspective of State Aid, Tuition and Spending for State Universities in Kansas
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A Legislator’s Guide to Delivering Better Service at a Better Price
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Should Kansas Expand Medicaid Under the Affordable Care Act?
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Tax Reform Gears Kansas for Growth
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Removing Barriers to Better Public Education – June 2012 UPDATE
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Expanding Educational Opportunities in Kansas through Online Learning
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Major Structural Deficits Looming in Kansas
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Reinventing the Kansas K-12 School System
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Policy Brief: Kansas Legislature’s Legal Authority to Modify the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS)
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Policy Brief: Legal Authority to Adjust State Pension Plans
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The Effect of Federal Health Care ‘Reform’ on Kansas General Fund Medicaid Expenditures
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KPERS: A Comprehensive Reform of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
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Volume IV: What do we want from education?
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Volume III: Analysis of K-12 Spending in Kansas
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Volume II: Analysis of Montoy vs. State of Kansas
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Volume I: History of Education Finance
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