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With $1 billion in reserve, schools don’t need a $200 million gift 0
- Education
- January 17, 2022
Gov. Laura Kelly’s budget proposal to gift $200 million to schools this year – on top of a court-mandated $243 million increase – isn’t needed for several reasons. It’s just an election year stunt to paint opponents as being unwilling to ‘fully fund’ public education. Under Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, the Legislature deferred about half ofREAD MORE
Learning recovery grants should be expanded into full-fledged expansion of education choice 0
- Education
- January 16, 2022
In Governor Kelly’s state of the state speech last Tuesday, she spent relatively little time on education. However, she did state that “our kids are feeling the lingering effects of the pandemic,” referring to what is known as learning loss from the effects of mandated school closings and the failure of remote learning. Within that
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School districts (again) rake in millions for non-existent students 0
- Education
- January 2, 2022
According to the latest student count data released by KSDE, districts across the state are set to receive in excess of $330 million in taxpayer funding during the 2021-22 school year for more than 70,000 non-existent students. Last year KPI published blogs here and here that disclosed how the state public school finance formula allows
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In Memoriam: Ethelmae Humphreys, Lioness for Liberty 0
- Education
- December 30, 2021
Her friends at the Cato Institute call Ethelmae Humphreys the grande dame of the libertarian movement. Her business colleagues say she was the matriarch of the roofing business. She was a cherished Advisor of the Kansas Policy Institute family. To David, Sarah, and John, she was Mom. The world lost an amazing woman when Ethelmae
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KSDE deceives legislators about student achievement 0
- Education
- December 9, 2021
It’s pretty telling when student achievement is so low that the Kansas Department of Education will only talk about it in generalities. Testimony presented by Deputy Commissioner Bran Neuenswander said state assessment scores were on a decline between 2015 and 2018, began to “level off” in 2019, but then fell in 2021. (The assessment wasn’t
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National study’s evidence of structural segregation in public education also true in Kansas 0
- Education, Education Research
- November 28, 2021
Information from the Urban Institute, in a research project titled Dividing Lines, reveals how gerrymandering of attendance zones within school districts reinforces and perpetuates segregation along racial lines in public schools in urban areas across the country. The Urban Institute analyzed student populations in which there was a substantial difference in the racial make-up of adjoining
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