Education

Janus-faced public-sector unions Janus-cased by US Supreme Court 0
- Education
- July 16, 2018
This piece was written by KPI scholar David Dorsey. David spent 17 years teaching in Kansas public school classrooms. Lost in all the hullaballoo over the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Janus decision is the sense of irony in the very name of the case. On June 27 the Court decided in Janus v. AFSCME that
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Gannon VI, Die Hard and All That Jazz 0
- Education
- July 11, 2018
The timeless 1988 action move Die Hard teased the audience with classic Hollywood plot misdirection. What appeared to be an international band of criminals kidnapping corporate officials to gain the release of terrorists around the world, turned out to be nothing more than a very sophisticated, daring (and high dollar!) cash grab. The story arc
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Kansas Voters Want their Representatives Allocating Education Spending Levels – Not Courts.0
- Education
- June 29, 2018
A POLL RELEASED TODAY BY KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE SHOWS VOTERS WANT LAWMAKERS TO APPROPRIATE EDUCATION SPENDING LEVELS IN KANSAS, NOT THE JUDICIAL BRANCH. June 29 – Wichita – This week, after the years-long Gannon v. Kansas lawsuit over state funding for public schools, the Kansas Supreme Court released their opinion rejecting a six-year $854 million
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Consequences, not spending, drive changes in student achievement 0
- Education
- June 22, 2018
(This column is written by KPI scholar David Dorsey, who formerly taught in Kansas public schools for more than a decade.) Recently I showed how the Supreme Court’s belief of a relationship between education spending and student achievement is fundamentally flawed. Throughout the Gannon case – the Court’s Gannon VI decision is expected any time
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An alternate look at spending and achievement disputes relationship determined by Supreme Court 0
- Education
- June 13, 2018
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on May 22 from the State Solicitor and plaintiffs’ attorney pursuant to what will be the sixth Supreme Court decision in the eight-year old Gannon saga. A decision will be presumably handed down before June 30. Front and center in the arguments is whether the state legislature’s most recent
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KPI presents scholarly review critical of WestEd education cost study 0
- Education
- May 29, 2018
Kansas Policy Institute commissioned a review of the recent WestEd education cost study that was undertaken for the Kansas legislature at the behest of the Kansas Supreme Court. Dr. Benjamin Scafidi of Kennesaw State University has provided a response (here) critical of WestEd’s use of a “cost function” approach to determine education funding in Kansas.
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