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 […]
Tag: Kansas Department of Education
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 […]
Kansas new open enrollment law makes some school districts cranky
The bipartisan Open Enrollment legislation signed into law in 2022 offered hope for students who are trapped by their zip code in underperforming school districts. The law requires […]
Grading scale of student achievement shows 70% of Kansas schools making C’s & D’s
WICHITA – A conservative policy organization that monitors student achievement in Kansas has published an A-F grading summary of public and private schools across the […]