Education

Kansas should forge ahead with state assessments 0
- Education
- December 11, 2020
As the calendar turns to a new year and with it the school spring semester, one question for K-12 education is garnering attention: Given the impact of COVID-19, should/will there be state assessments in 2021? It is vital that the state board and KSDE do everything possible to make sure those tests are administered. As
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It’s time to change the rules on the Kansas charter school law 0
- Education
- November 20, 2020
Lost in the fog of COVID, the Center for Education Reform (CER) released their 2020 national charter school law rankings. To what should be no surprise to anyone, Kansas’s charter school law once again received a grade of F, ranking 45th out of 46 states (including D.C.) that have charter school laws. All you need
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Barely half of $7 billion school funding is spent on Instruction 0
- Education
- November 6, 2020
The Kansas Education Accounting Manual tells school districts that Instruction spending – direct interaction between teachers and students – is “…the most important part of the education program, the very foundation on which everything else is built. If this function fails to perform at the needed level, the whole educational program is doomed to failure
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Student weightings add over $1.4 billion in education expenditures 0
- Education
- November 4, 2020
Total K-12 education expenditures for the 2019-20 school year topped the $7 billion mark according to the latest financial figures released by KSDE. Per-pupil expenditures rose 5.42% to $14,848. (KSDE just estimated 2020-21 total spending at $7.3 billion and per-pupil at $16,216.) Of the $7 billion spent in 2019-20, just over $2.1 billion came directly
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KSDE: per-pupil funding estimated at $16,216 this year 0
- Education
- October 30, 2020
The Kansas Department of Education confirmed this week that per-pupil funding is estimated to be $16,216 this year; that’s 9.2% higher than last year’s record level of $14,848. KSDE Deputy Commissioner of Finance Craig Neuenswander confirmed the numbers in an email to KPI. Per-pupil funding from the State is estimated to be $10,967; federal aid
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Education finance formula provides hundreds of millions for non-existent students 0
- Education
- October 15, 2020
Recently KPI published this article that outlined how school districts will not face financial consequences if there is lower enrollment due to COVID, or any other reason. The deck is stacked in financial favor of the districts because they are allowed to take the higher enrollment of the two years previous to the current year.
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