As another state prioritizes students over systems, Kansas continues to simply debate giving parents the option to send their children to the school of their choice. In […]
Tag: Kansas Department of Education
Kansas students again below national average in reading & math
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), acknowledged as the “gold standard” of assessments by the Kansas Department of Education, shows Kansas students once again […]
Kansas education spending goes up, but college readiness keeps going down
The ACT results just released for the 2024 school year in Kansas show further declines in both raw scores and college readiness. The test is typically taken […]
KDOR change to allow sales tax deductions for home schooling
A lawsuit seems to have led to the Kansas Department of Revenue’s reversal of policy on sales tax exemptions for homeschool parents. Until recently, homeschools […]
Parents high-tailing it for School Choice opportunities
In the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (played wonderfully understated by Kevin Costner) hears a voice say, “If you build it, he […]
Five things to keep an eye on in the coming Kansas school year
Yes, another school year is almost upon us. Summer flies by, doesn’t it? You teachers know exactly what I mean. This really is the calm […]
ACT scores declining in Kansas schools
ACT scores for individual high schools in Kansas show concerning declines since 2015 in most cases. The statewide composite in 2015 was 21.9 but fell steadily […]
Kansas schools build non-teaching staff, payrolls while enrollment, student performance decline
The hiring of non-teachers (administrators and all other employees who are not teachers) has continued an upward trend in Kansas for the past decade in […]
Kansas K-12 education is failing more students, and bureaucratic word salad won’t fix it
“Prairie Home Companion” on National Public Radio was about the fictional city Lake Wobegon, which host Garrison Keillor described as a place where “all women […]
Kansas’ “at risk” student program doesn’t need more money; it needs an overhaul
The Kansas Policy Institute has proposed a new model for the state’s woeful at-risk program. (In education circles, “at risk” students are those viewed to have a […]