Tag: Wichita and Kansas schools
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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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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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Where are our documents?
Government promotes and promises transparency, but finds it difficult to actually provide.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Lack of information sharing by government, community improvement districts, and the last episode of “Love Gov”
Do our governmental agencies really want to share data and documents with us? Community Improvement Districts and homeowners compared. And, the last episode of “Love Gov” from the Independent Institute.
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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.