David Dorsey, Author at Kansas Policy Institute

$Audit shows targeted funding misses at-risk students$
Audit shows targeted funding misses at-risk students 0
- Education
- December 15, 2019
(M)ost at-risk spending was used for teachers and programs for all students and did not appear to specifically address at-risk students as required by state law. This statement is the heart of the findings reported by Legislative Post Audit (LPA) in their performance audit K-12 Education: Evaluating At-Risk Student Counts, Weights, and Expenditures released this
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NAEP scores leave Kansas Association of School Boards making excuses 0
- Featured
- November 25, 2019
In a recent response to the precipitous decline in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores, the Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) has spun the results to: -> minimize the importance of NAEP, -> identify spurious excuses, and -> ultimately point the finger of blame at…you guessed it, not enough money. KASB trivialized
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NAEP scores – double trouble for Kansas students 0
- Education
- November 16, 2019
The U.S. Department of Education released the 2019 scores for the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), and the results are not good for Kansas students. Not only did composite scores drop considerably from 2017, Kansas students are now performing worse than in 2003. Only one in three Kansas 8th graders is proficient in math
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The Broken Record Syndrome: More money to education and flat state assessment scores 0
- Education
- November 4, 2019
State assessment scores for 2019 remained virtually unchanged from 2018 and slightly lower than 2017 scores despite a court-ordered influx of hundreds of millions of dollars to K-12 public education pursuant to the Gannon lawsuit. Overall, the percentage of all students taking the state assessments – grades 3 through 8 and grade 10 – who
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