Tag: school funding
TOPEKA — State education officials and lobbyists clashed Tuesday in a debate over whether improved school finance creates positive trends in Kansas student achievement. As a product of the Gannon lawsuit and legislation approved by…
There’s no such thing as a free meal, USD 257 board members are learning. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the USDA and Kansas Department of Education have provided free meals for students through…
Kansas educators want lawmakers to act on health care, bullying and college credits when the Legislature convenes later this month. For over a decade, the school funding battle has dominated any conversation about education in…
One might think the end of her first legislative session as Kansas governor would give Laura Kelly some relief. Oh, not much, she said. Weve been extraordinarily busy. With lawmakers out of town until January,…
No doubt, most everyone welcomed the Kansas Supreme Courts ruling Friday that state legislators have finally met their financial obligation to public K-12 schools with their most recent boost of $90 million a year for…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court signed off Friday on an increase in spending on public schools that the Democratic governor pushed through the Republican-controlled Legislature, but the justices refused to close the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court signed off Friday on an increase in spending on public schools that the Democratic governor pushed through the Republican-controlled Legislature, but the justices refused to close the…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) It was a quiet Sunday morning in 2011 when Jeff Gannon got a warning hed never forget. A year earlier, he and his family agreed to put their name to one…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Lawyers for Kansas told the state Supreme Court on Monday that it should sign off on a new law boosting spending on public schools and end a protracted education funding lawsuit…
On April 6 more than 100 people watched Governor Laura Kelly sign a K-12 school finance bill that will increase school funding approximately $90 million in each of the next four years. Some Republicans joined…
