Kansas Update: School Buildings Will Close, Not School
In the fog of the pandemic, it’s hard to keep track of school closings and cancellation of state testing. In Kansas, Governor Laura Kelly ordered...
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Kansas: Governor Closes Schools for Rest of Year
Governor Laura Kelly of Kansas announced that all schools are closed for the rest of the school year. Governor closes Kansas schools, puts most state...
Jan Resseger: Tax Cuts in Kansas Produce Civic Disaster
Jan Resseger describes the after-effects of former Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s crash program to cut corporate and income taxes and expect an economic boom....
Kansas Court to Legislature: Fund the Schools!
HELP SUPPORT ELCELC relies on the generous contributions of individuals, corporations and foundations to support our work. KANSAS HIGH COURT TO STATE: SCHOOL FUNDING FORMULA...
Gary Rubinstein: Guess Which State Paid $90,000 for Each TFA Recruit?
Gary Rubinstein thought that Ohio paid more money than any other state to Teach for America, at the rate of $20,000 per recruit. Chicken feed!...
A Student in Kansas Writes about How Standardized Testing Makes Her Feel
Kevin Bosworth, a teacher at Olathe East High School in Olathe, Kansas, wrote to tell me about a class discussion of grades and tests....
Mercedes Schneider: How Kansas Wasted Money on TFA
The Kansas State Department of Education has money to burn (but not on tezchers’ Salaries), so it burned $270,000 to hire three inexperinced temporary teachers...
Kansas Will Pay TFA $270,000 for Recruiting 3 Teachers
You read that right. Kansas is a state that has cut taxes and cut its education budget repeatedly and whose teachers are paid poorly. It...
How Red States Slashed Taxes, Cut Education Budgets, and Nearly Went Bankrupt
After the 2010 elections, when anti-tax Tea Party Republicans swept many states, they had a chance to perform a radical experiment. They bet that slashing...
Good News! Kansas Supreme Court Rules That Legislators Are Not Funding Schools Equitably
Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas nearly bankrupted the State with his theory that cutting taxes would cause a huge economic boom. Taxes were cut but...