Student Achievement Archives - Kansas Policy Institute

NAEP scores – double trouble for Kansas students 0
- Education
- November 16, 2019
The U.S. Department of Education released the 2019 scores for the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), and the results are not good for Kansas students. Not only did composite scores drop considerably from 2017, Kansas students are now performing worse than in 2003. Only one in three Kansas 8th graders is proficient in math
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The Broken Record Syndrome: More money to education and flat state assessment scores 0
- Education
- November 4, 2019
State assessment scores for 2019 remained virtually unchanged from 2018 and slightly lower than 2017 scores despite a court-ordered influx of hundreds of millions of dollars to K-12 public education pursuant to the Gannon lawsuit. Overall, the percentage of all students taking the state assessments – grades 3 through 8 and grade 10 – who
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New report provides more evidence that Kansas education is not Top 10 0
- Education
- September 16, 2019
Kansas education performance is somewhere in the middle – not Top 10 – of a nation that shows generally mediocre performance. This finding largely repeats that of last year and comes from the 2019 Quality Counts annual report and state rankings from Education Week. It is not good news for Kansas students or residents. Regarding
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Is more money helping Kansas students?0
- Education
- March 7, 2019
There’s a lot of disagreement right now in the Kansas legislature about K-12 education in Kansas. Funding set a record last year at $13,600 per-pupil, and another billion dollar increase is planned. Governor Laura Kelly says schools still need more money while others, like Senate President Susan Wagle, say decades of school litigation and costly
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Cato study disputes claims of Kansas education efficiency 0
- Education, Education Research
- December 31, 2018
One of the findings in the 2018 WestED K-12 cost study is a high level of efficiency in school spending, with efficiency in case meaning ‘bang for the buck.’ However, a study just released by the Cato Institute says 30 states do better than Kansas when spending is adjusted for cost-of-living variances. Dr. Lori Taylor,
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Latest Governor’s Education Council will do nothing to help prepare Kansas students and boost the state’s economy 0
- Education
- December 20, 2018
The governor of Kansas has virtually no role in public education in the state. The only mention of the governor in the state constitution is the authority to appoint members of the state board of regents. There is no mention of the governor in K-12 education. So why do Kansas governors keep creating committees to
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