Tag: Education
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Kansas school employees by type
An interactive visualization of trends in Kansas school employment.
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Kansas NAEP scores for 2015
Reactions to the release of National Assessment of Educational Progress scores for Kansas and the nation. Also, an interactive visualization.
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Kansas school support
An interactive visualization of data provided to members of the Kansas 2015 Special Committee on K-12 Student Success.
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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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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.