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Kansas lawmakers head into the next stretch of this year’s legislative session after advancing bills offering tax breaks to some smaller businesses,…
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Imagine, teacher Shauna Hammett tells first-graders gathered around a small table, a train whistle.“What sound is the long ‘A’ sound?” Hammett asks.Hands…
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Newly installed Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer described his state Wednesday as vibrant but with trouble spots, telling lawmakers he plans to charge ahead at its…
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Over five years, the bus money that Kansas doled out to schools — that auditors say it shouldn’t have without legislative permission — totaled $45…
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The chief school finance official in Kansas — under fire from top Republican lawmakers, backed by scores of people in state education circles — on Friday…
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Today, about three of every 20 students in Kansas fail to graduate from high school. Gov. Sam Brownback contends that in five years, only one will fall…
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Fellow Republicans on Wednesday characterized Gov. Sam Brownback’s spending plan — more than $6.6 billion a year — as a beeline return to deficits and an…
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Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer continues to shape top levels of Kansas government amid anticipation that the U.S. Senate may soon confirm Gov. Sam Brownback for an…
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Kansas’ approach to implementing a federal law on equity in education would fail to promote achievement for thousands of students the law was meant to…
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Fewer than 40 percent of Kansas students are on track to be academically prepared for college, community college or technical school as measured by their…
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Kansas education officials did little to promote a public comment period for a school accountability plan designed to steer the state through 2030 and…
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The massive hurricanes Harvey and Irma have people talking about how much, if at all, climate change adds to such storms’ destructiveness.In a blog post…