School Funding Archives - Kansas Policy Institute

Kansas Supreme Court teetering on tyranny 0
- Tax & Spending
- May 31, 2018
If the Kansas Supreme Court rejects the Legislature’s latest attempt to mollify on school funding as predicted, Governor Colyer and the Legislature will soon face another monumental decision. Individually and collectively, they must decide whether (finally) to defend the constitution and reject the court’s attempt to establish a judicial oligarchy or (again) make an even
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“Cost” Functions Should Not Be Used to Make Education Spending Decisions 0
- Education Research
- May 18, 2018
Executive Summary In response to the Kansas Supreme Court’s recent ruling in the Gannon V case, the Kansas Legislature recently contracted with a vendor to analyze the “cost” of educating public school students in grades K-12. Specifically, the vendor was asked to “estimate the minimum spending required to produce a given outcome within a given
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Disconnected players lead to education funding mess 0
- Education
- April 26, 2018
Why is the system of funding Kansas public schools such a mess? Whose fault is it? Is it the Legislature’s? The Supreme Court’s? Could it be the State Board of Education (SBOE) and the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE)? Maybe the feds? How about the schools themselves, do they play a role? Or is
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School funding plan requires big tax hike 0
- Tax & Spending
- April 5, 2018
Calculations provided by Kansas Legislative Research (KLRD) show the $525 million House school funding plan would require a $306 million tax increase next year and a $293 million transfer from the highway fund to comply with state law. The following three years would require a $215 million tax increase and another $879 million transferred from
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Kansas school funding study cuts rural schools 0
- Education
- April 4, 2018
Implementing the recommendation of the WestEd Kansas school funding study to reach a 95 percent graduation rate would result in funding cuts for 53 counties even though total funding would jump by more than $400 million. Even a $2 billion increase would cut school funding in 11 counties – Clay, Coffey, Ellis, Jackson, Kiowa, Logan,
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What’s in the House school funding plan?0
- Education
- March 31, 2018
The House school funding plan that developed last week proposes to give schools $500 million more over five years in hope of appeasing the Kansas Supreme Court. There would be an increase in special education funding but most of the money goes to increasing base state aid. Ironically, a constitutional amendment was also introduced that
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