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K-12 bureaucracy ignores flaws in special education funding formula, calls...
Despite testimony that some K-12 funding related to special education (SPED) services is not counted toward SPED funding, the Kansas education bureaucracy called for hundreds of millions more at a...
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More false claims from SUBV on spending and achievement
The activists of Stand Up Blue Valley (SUBV) are working hard to protect the bureaucracy at students’ expense by pushing another set of deceitful and blatantly false claims to hide the truth about...
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State audit: just spending more won’t improve achievement
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is touting recent slight increases in state assessments as proof that more spending results in improved student achievement. But a state audit and the history of spending...
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Race-based, income-based achievement gaps widen in Johnson County
Achievement gaps in math and English Language Arts are worse for minorities and low-income students in the three largest school districts in Johnson County on the state assessment, despite large...
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Education leaders, prosecutors weigh in on truancy, chronic absenteeism
Amid increases in chronic absenteeism, defined by the Kansas State Education Department (KSDE) as a student missing 10% of the days school was in session at any point in the year, we asked education...
View ArticleGilmore wins 1st Amendment case against Olathe school board member
In a victory for free speech rights, a federal jury recently sided with Olathe resident Jennifer Gilmore who was removed from an Olathe Board of Education meeting in 2022. Gilmore, who ran for a seat...
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Leavenworth supers want more money, higher property tax, no accountability
The 2024 legislative agenda that Leavenworth County superintendents are proposing for adoption by their school boards is loaded with demands for legislators to increase funding, allow school boards to...
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KSBRC event attracts experts discussing ways to improve student achievement
With the theme of Improving Student Achievement by Changing Adult Behaviors, the Kansas School Board Resource Center (KSBRC) brought education experts from Kansas and nationwide to Wichita for a...
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Jackson Heights School District leaving KASB, citing political differences
Jackson Heights USD 335 is leaving the Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) saying KASB no longer reflects the district’s values. According to Superintendent Jim Howard, the deteriorating...
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School spending sets new record $17,650 per student
New data from the Kansas Department of Education shows that school spending in the 2022-23 school year was $17,650 per student, with total spending at $8.2 billion. State aid accounts for $5.2...
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Lansing school board narrowly approves transgender policy
The Lansing USD 469 School Board adopted a transgender student policy at its December meeting, a year after the same policy was approved by its colleagues in the Gardner-Edgerton USD 231 District. The...
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Kansas Chamber poll: business leaders call for tax cuts, improving...
A year-end poll of 300 Kansas business leaders finds tax cuts, making the state’s economy more competitive, and workforce development at the top of their wish list in the New Year. The poll...
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NCTQ: five policies to improve teacher effectiveness in the science of reading
Sounding the alarm that 37% of fourth-grade students in the United States (40% in Kansas) cannot read at grade level, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has issued five policy proposalsto...
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School officials’ accreditation testimony exposes assault on academic...
You might think that mandating loss of accreditation for requiring school districts that don’t comply with state law would not be controversial, but that proposal in House Bill 2612 was met with...
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KASB budget advice is contrary to state law, silent on improving outcomes
Kansas school board members are getting budget advice from the Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) that is contrary to state law, and it doesn’t seem to be an accident. KASB mailed a Budget...
View ArticleKSDE: evidence shows students are negatively impacted by a 4-day school week
There is a growing trend in small school districts to go to a 4-day school week, which, unfortunately, is another example of the education system acting in the interests of adults to the detriment of...
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Niche, Wichita Eagle push student achievement deception
A false sense of high achievement is one of the greatest barriers to students getting the education they need. Many education officials go out of their way to obscure what’s really happening, and...
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