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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.
By Dane Hicks
5 min
16Aug 2024

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
By Dane Hicks
2 min
06Aug 2024

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
By Dane Hicks
8 min
12Jul 2024

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
By Dane Hicks
5 min
05Jul 2024

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
By Dane Hicks
7 min
03Jul 2024

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
By Dane Hicks
5 min
08May 2024

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
By Dane Hicks
4 min
24Apr 2024

Kansas Early Learning Standards expand government framework, expectations for your kid

The Kansas Board of Eduction met January 9-10 in Topeka for its first meeting of 2024 and approved an expansion
By Dane Hicks
4 min
12Jan 2024

Keep cameras in the classrooms

One of the windows opened by the Covid pandemic for the rest of the outside world was one that allowed
By Dane Hicks
5 min
02Jun 2021