Education

KASB’s data manipulation avoids truth about spending, inflation and student outcomes 0
- Education
- August 19, 2018
If you read enough Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) school funding reports, you’d think education funding in Kansas didn’t exist prior to 2008. That always seems to be the start date whenever KASB writes about how much they think Kansas education is underfunded. The most recent Tallman Education Report is no exception. It’s another
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LeBron’s “I Promise” school – a model Kansas should emulate 0
- Education, Uncategorized
- August 19, 2018
There will be no mention of basketball in this essay despite the fact that as a Phoenix Suns fan throughout my adult life, nothing could be worse than LeBron James joining the despicable, hated Los Angeles Lakers. (If there any Suns fans out there, you know exactly what I’m talking about.) Ok, that’s the only
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USD 500 Kansas City shortchanges teachers (again)0
- Education
- August 16, 2018
The Kansas City, Kansas school district – USD 500 – spent just 1.2 percent more on teacher pay during the 2018 school year according to data provided by the district in an Open Records request. That’s the same percentage increase for the total payroll, but there are some eye-opening outliers. Superintendent Cynthia Lane took home
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Educators mislead Civil Rights Commission 0
- Education
- August 10, 2018
You can add ‘misleading the Kansas Advisory Council to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission’ to the list of ethical lapses committed by educators in their pursuit of money. The Advisory Council took testimony earlier this year to determine whether the Kansas school funding formula contributes to disparities in student achievement on the basis of race,
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Kansas school boards skimp on teacher pay 0
- Education
- August 8, 2018
Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) chief lobbyist Mark Tallman’s recent post says teacher pay is too low, but he left out one important detail – low teacher pay is a conscious decision of local school board members. Tallman cites teacher pay estimates from the National Center for Education Statistics showing average teacher pay is
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About that Tallman Education Report…just one more thing 0
- Education
- August 3, 2018
In an early ‘70s Columbo episode, the iconic detective was convinced that a recorded phone conversation was the key to proving Columbo’s suspect was indeed the murderer. He listened to the tape again and again, hoping to hear a background noise that didn’t belong, thus proving the suspect (in this case Robert Culp, who played
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