Category: Wichita and Kansas schools
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Kansas should let markets regulate schools
When markets are not allowed to work, we waste energy fighting over laws and volumes of regulations.
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Kansas school employment trends
Kansas school employment statistics don’t reflect the doom-and-gloom stories you may have heard from Kansas political leaders and newspaper editorialists.
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Kansas school test scores, a hidden story
This video takes a look at Kansas and Texas school test scores and reveals something that might surprise you.
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Brief filed in Kansas school finance case
Walt Chappell has filed a brief providing argument and evidence relevant to the current Kansas school finance case.
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Why are Kansas school standards so low?
At a time when Kansas was spending more on schools due to an order from the Kansas Supreme Court, the state lowered its already low standards for schools.
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Let’s just ignore this Kansas school spending
The response to a survey regarding Kansas school spending is useful for two reasons: It lets us gauge the level of knowledge of the public, and it also tells us the extent to which school spending advocates will go to justify and excuse spending.
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Wichita school district checkbook
Here is checkbook data for the Wichita public school district analyzed in several ways.
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Kansas school standards have changed
At a time when Kansas was spending more on schools due to an order from the Kansas Supreme Court, the state lowered its standards for schools.
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Kansas school spending, slashed?
In this segment of KAKE TV “This Week in Kansas,” Richard Schrock, Peter Hancock, and Bob Weeks discuss education funding in Kansas. Tim Brown is the host.
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Do you know this about Kansas school test scores?
Public school leaders in Kansas are proud of Kansas schools, often citing our state’s high ranking compared to other states. This video takes a look at Kansas test scores.
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Kansas school spending advocates take to Twitter
Kansas school spending advocates are not always familiar with facts.
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Kansas Affordable Airfares program: Benefits and consequences
To keep airfares low at the Wichita Airport, the Wichita City Council in partnership with Sedgwick County and the State of Kansas, pays a discount air carrier to operate in Wichita. While the program almost certainly works with regard to airfares, there is another effect of the program: The trend of flights and seats available…