Education

KPI presents the 2021 A-F Grading of Kansas public and private schools 0
- Education
- April 5, 2022
Kansas Policy Institute has just released the 2021 A-F Grading report card for 1,273 Kansas public and 122 Kansas private schools. KPI began this school report card system – based on state assessment scores – in 2017 and followed with report cards in 2018 and 2019. After a COVID related absence in 2020, the 2021
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State assessments results show falling scores, low rates of proficiency 0
- Education
- March 21, 2022
Results for the 2019 and 2021 state assessments are provided in this chart. USD Achievement by County The chart includes proficiency rates (Levels 3 and 4 in the state assessment) for both math and English language arts (ELA) by income level for all students in all grades. The results are reported for all 286 districts,READ MORE
A focus on leadership at the center of Fort Leavenworth student achievement 0
- Education
- March 11, 2022
At the January state board of education meeting Fort Leavenworth (USD 207) was recognized for being the highest achieving district in terms of state assessment results for the 2020-21 school year. Their districtwide scores earned them the state’s only Silver Medal in the “academically prepared for post-secondary” category of the Kansans Can initiative. Districts in
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Lawrence district can’t blame legislators for budget deficit 0
- Education
- February 17, 2022
USD 497 Lawrence school officials told KMBC-TV that they have a budget deficit because state funding has not kept up with inflation and enrollment has declined by nearly 900 students since 2015. But like many funding claims from education officials, this one isn’t true. Not counting KPERS pension funding, state aid per student for the
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Private schools continue to outperform public schools on state assessments 0
- Education
- February 4, 2022
Once again, low-income students in Kansas private schools outperform their public school counterparts on state assessments, this time from the 2021 state assessment results. KPI has shown here and here that economically disadvantaged students in private schools do better on the state tests than their public-school counterparts. That trend continues, as shown in Table 1.
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School budgets average $16,686 per pupil this year 0
- Education
- January 30, 2022
Data published by the Kansas Department of Education show school budgets average $16,686 per student this year. Actual spending for the 2021 school year was $15,869. A review of the 25 largest districts based on enrollment shows budgeted spending ranging from a low of around $12,000 for Andover to almost $24,000 for Geary County Schools.
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