Research conducted by the Kansas Policy Institute (KPI), the owner of The Sentinel, shows that nearly 9 out of 10 decisions on property tax appeals decided by the […]
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Kansas school assessments show 150,000 students functionally illiterate
More than 150,000 Kansas K-12 students will have a difficult time reading this story. Not because of the subject matter, but because they may be […]
Pig in a poke: Kelly/Toland claim jobs gains, but new numbers less than pre-Covid
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly and Lt. Governor/Secretary of Commerce Doug Toland have routinely touted tens of thousands of “jobs created or saved” — without substantiation — since […]
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 […]
Taxes choke off Kansas job growth, and politics prevents a solution
Kansas’s 2024 legislative session can be characterized as a constant back-and-forth between the Legislature and Governor Kelly on tax reform, with several vetoes, failed overrides, and dozens […]
Who wants cookies? Bill debates best way to build business in Kansas
Corporate income taxes in Kansas would be reduced to 5.75%, and two business subsidies — Promoting Employment Across Kansas (PEAK) and High-Performance Incentive Program (H-PIP) […]