Education

KPI presents the 2023 Public Education Fact Book 0
- Education
- May 31, 2023
The 2023 edition of KPI’s annual Public Education Fact Book is now available. As in previous editions, the 2023 version is an invaluable resource for a plethora of public education data on student achievement, K-12 spending, enrollment, employment and more. The information provided is on multiple levels – statewide, districtwide, and nationwide – and for
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State board’s adoption of goals and outcomes is a real head-scratcher 0
- Education
- May 15, 2023
At the May State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting the board adopted a set of goals and outcomes for the remainder of the current board’s term, which ends in December of 2024. The set of four goals is the synthesis of discussions at board retreats earlier this year. These are the goals along with outcomes
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How many administrators are needed to run a school district?0
- Education
- May 8, 2023
Tim Hamblin, the Derby High School principal who had to apologize for showing a video about white privilege, is moving to the Wichita school district next year to be the Executive Director of College and Career Readiness. That’s part of the superintendent’s job in many school districts, but it is one of dozens of top
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Don’t expect bureaucracy to allow “science of reading” approach to make a difference 0
- Education, Education Research
- April 28, 2023
When I began my teaching career in the early 1990s, it quickly became clear that the approach to teaching kids to read had changed dramatically since I was in elementary school. The phonics-based approach to learning to read had been swept aside by what is called the whole-language approach to learning to read. Instead of
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SBOE/KSDE and Kansas Supreme Court see student success much differently 0
- Education
- April 20, 2023
It’s hard to believe, but the latest decision in the Gannon lawsuit, Gannon VI, came down over five years ago – tempus fugit. That decision, along with its predecessor Gannon V in 2017, sent the Legislature scurrying to come up with what amounts to more than a billion dollars in new state funding to K-12
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Educrats fear the coming of ESAs, educational freedom 0
- Education, Uncategorized
- March 1, 2023
Apparently there is considerable internet “chatter” in response to a blog that I wrote for KPI last week. The piece was in response to a vote to close a KCMO charter school due to poor performance. The “chatter” is in regard to the line, “Ultimately, all publicly-funded schools need to be held to the same
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