Tag: Kansas Policy Institute
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Kansas school employment trends de-emphasize classroom teachers
A large body of research shows that nothing benefits students more than having effective teachers in the classroom. What is the tend of teacher employment in Kansas schools?
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Kansas Association of School Boards: Putting institutions and money before individual students
In Kansas, institutional demands for more money continue to drive the debate, writes Dave Trabert of Kansas Policy Institute.
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KNEA: supporting institutions at children’s expense
The Kansas National Education Association’s slogan is “Making public schools great for every child.” It may be a coincidence that their slogan seems to emphasize institutions over students, but many of their actions quite deliberately put institutional interests first.
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WichitaLiberty Podcast, episode 2
In this episode of WichitaLiberty Podcasts: David Boaz, Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute, visits the WichitaLiberty.TV studios and explains the ideas behind libertarianism and its approach to government and society. New figures from the Kansas State Department of Education show that spending on public schools in Kansas is rising, and at a rate…
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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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Anderson, former Kansas budget director, speaks
Former Kansas budget director Steve Anderson spoke to members and guests of the Wichita Pachyderm Club. Two videos are available, a highlights version and full version.
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Kansas school fund balances on the rise
Kansas schools don’t spend all the money they’ve been given, and the pile of unspent cash continues to grow, although it leveled off in the most recent year for which there is data.
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Kansas university spending and funding
In response to a small decrease in Kansas university funding in next year’s budget, there’s been a bit of overreaction
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Kansas taxes, the debate
Kansans are not being helped by their stable of newspaper editorial boards.
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Wichita and peer GDP growth
Compared to its peers, the government sector in Wichita is growing fairly quickly, but the private sector is growing slowly
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Kansas has a spending problem, not a tax problem
The data could not be clearer. Kansas has higher state taxes than many states because Kansas spends a lot more than those states.