Podcasts Archives - Kansas Policy Institute

New School Funding Formula is an Opportunity for Improvement 0
- Education
- January 11, 2016
Dave Trabert, president of KPI, talks about school funding as the Kansas Legislature kicks off its 2016 session. The 2015 Legislature gave themselves a 2017 deadline to replace the old school funding formula.
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Debunking the “Great Kansas Teacher Exodus” Myth 0
- Education
- August 19, 2015
David Dorsey, a senior education policy fellow with the Kansas Policy Institute, talks about an article he wrote exploding the myth – perpetuated by a Washington Post story – that the number of Kansas teachers leaving the profession is up dramatically and that it’s the fault of the Kanas legislature.
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Government Transparency Round Table Discussion 0
- Uncategorized
- July 8, 2015
Kansas Policy Institute Vice President James Franko discusses government transparency with Seth Etter and Bob Weeks. Etter is the organizer of Open Wichita, an initiative to bring the benefits of open data and civic hacking to Wichita. Weeks blogs at Voice for Liberty in Wichita where he advocates for government transparency and accountability and uses
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2015 Legislative Wrap-up 0
- Uncategorized
- June 22, 2015
Kansas Policy Institute President Dave Trabert summarizes the major accomplishments of the 2015 Kansas Legislature including changes to: K-12 school funding, renewable energy mandates, tax credit scholarships, property tax reform and avoidance of Medicaid expansion.
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2015 Kansas Budget Wrap-up 0
- Tax & Spending
- June 22, 2015
Kansas Policy Institute President Dave Trabert wraps up what the 2015 Kansas Legislature did to produce the Constitutionally-required balanced budget.
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- Uncategorized
- June 1, 2015
Patrick Parkes talks about KansasOpenGov.org, an online government data and spending transparency initiative operated by the Kansas Policy Institute. The site allows anyone to see and compare data on state and local government in Kansas. Parkes is a fiscal policy analyst with KPI
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