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Kansas Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer wants lawmakers to fix a costly mistake in the school finance bill passed after midnight on the last day of the regular…
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Lawmakers may not know for months whether a deal to pump half a billion dollars into schools goes far enough to end seven years of court battles over…
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Arm wrestling over a final deal on Kansas school spending begins in earnest Friday after the Senate settled on a figure that’s much lower than the House’s…
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The Kansas House has had its say on school finance — putting the ball in the Senate’s court. But Senate leaders say they won’t move forward on increasing…
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Republicans in the Kansas House couldn’t win enough votes Monday to increase school funding by hundreds of millions of dollars. Conservatives in their own…
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A report meant to guide Kansas school spending appears to have overshot the mark by more than half a billion dollars.Consultants who wrote the document…
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Seg. 1: Kansas Lawmakers On School Funding. Seg. 2: Missouri Choir Gives Local Compositions A Voice.Segment 1: With deadline looming, Kansas lawmakers struggle to find funding plan that satisfies the state's legislature and supreme court.After a report…
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Republicans in the Kansas House have unveiled a school funding proposal to send an added half billion dollars to local districts in the next five years. A…
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A report commissioned by the Kansas Legislature made clear just how much it might cost to improve student outcomes at public schools.It’s so expensive,…
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Now that Republican leaders have a report they commissioned on school funding, it’s not clear they’ll pursue its recommendations to spend more for better…
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(This story has been updated.)Getting most Kansas schoolchildren doing well enough in math and reading to stay on track for college could cost an extra $2…
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Republicans in the Kansas House on Tuesday unveiled a plan they say will make schools safer.Really more of a plan to get a plan, it calls for the Kansas…