Payroll jumps in Shawnee Mission but not for teachers
- Education
- August 22, 2018
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
READ MOREAt 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
READ MORETim 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
READ MOREWhen 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
READ MOREIt’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
READ MOREApparently 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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