Education

School funding decision doesn’t end litigation 0
- Education
- June 17, 2019
The Kansas Supreme Court’s June 14 ruling that school funding now meets the court’s definition of being constitutionally adequate is likely just a ‘time-out’ in school funding litigation. The decision doesn’t preclude schools from taking further legal action, either within the current Gannon litigation or with another lawsuit. And just like large funding increases in
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Claim that more Gannon money will be used to hire 5,400 teachers doesn’t stand up to scrutiny 0
- Education
- June 12, 2019
If you were to believe Gannon plaintiff attorney Alan Rupe, schools across the state are poised to hire 5,400 new teachers. This additional cadre of educators would allow the education system in the state of Kansas to satisfy the Rose standards by providing what Rupe described as “the 25% deprived of a constitutionally equitable and
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Gannon VII oral arguments focus on inflation, constitutionality of Montoy 0
- Education
- May 30, 2019
The Supreme Court held oral arguments on May 9 prior to their upcoming seventh Gannon opinion. As has been the case throughout the nearly decade-long Gannon saga, each oral argument phase brings at least one new variable that makes predicting what the Court might decide a fool’s errand. This go-around there were two such variables: 1.
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KS has 15th highest state aid per-student, moving toward top ten 0
- Education
- May 30, 2019
Education data for all 50 states just released by the U.S. Census shows Kansas had the 15th highest state aid in 2017 at $8,130 per-student. Additional funding provided since then puts state aid in excess of $9,000 per-student, which would put Kansas among the ten highest in the nation. New Jersey had the 10th highest
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2019 Education FactBook gives perspective on spending and achievement 0
- Education
- May 28, 2019
To say there is a lot of public education data out there would be an understatement. Data on spending, revenues, student achievement, and personnel is all over the place. Wouldn’t it be great if all that pertinent data was in one easy to access location? Well, it is. KPI has just released the 2019 Public
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Sumner Academy’s student-focused approach leads to high success 0
- Education
- May 19, 2019
One of the purposes of KPI’s A-F grading of Kansas public schools is to find successful approaches to student success that other schools can duplicate. One such high school is Kansas City’s Sumner Academy of Arts and Sciences (USD 500). Sumner Academy is the highest graded urban high school in the state. Sumner was also
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