Category: Wichita and Kansas schools
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What are opinions of the level of Kansas school spending?
Part of the difficulty in understanding and debating school spending in Kansas is the starting point, that is, the lack of factual information. From 2012, a look at a survey that revealed the level of knowledge of school spending by Kansans.
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Merit pay fairness is not about teachers
Opposing teacher merit pay based on fairness issues isn’t being fair to students. Instead, it’s cruel to students.
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Kansas school expenditures per pupil
The Kansas State Department of Education publishes a series of worksheets titled Expenditures Per Pupil. Here is the data gathered and presented in an interactive visualization.
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Kansas school fund balances
Kansas school fund balances rose slightly this year, both in absolute dollars and dollars per pupil.
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Wichita teacher contract: For union members only?
In a pitch to increase union membership, United Teachers of Wichita promotes an exclusive benefit: The ability to read the employment contract.
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Wichita school district checkbook updated
An interactive table of checkbook spending by the Wichita public school district.
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Kansas Center for Economic Growth and the truth
Why can’t Kansas public school spending advocates — especially a former Kansas state budget director — tell the truth about schools and spending, wonders Dave Trabert of Kansas Policy Institute.
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Kansas schools shortchanged by accounting systems
Kansas schools could receive $21 million annually in federal funds if the state had adequate information systems in place.
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Kansas teachers earn pension credit while working for union
An audit finds that a handful of Kansas teachers have accumulated KPERS service credits while working for teachers unions.
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Having raised taxes, could you give us a little access?
The Wichita public school district has raised taxes substantially, but it’s still difficult to view the board meetings. Could we work out a deal?
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Kansas schools ask to fund extraordinary needs
Asking taxpayer-funded entities whether they are operating efficiently is a perfectly legitimate question that, frankly, should be the starting point of every budget discussion. That some find it offensive is indication that the issue should be much more aggressively pursued across government, writes Dave Trabert of Kansas Policy Institute.
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Kansas school standards found lower than in most states
A second study finds that Kansas uses low standards for evaluating the performance of students in its public schools.