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Gov. Laura Kelly, seen here ceremonially signing the 2023 K-12 education budget bill in August at Seaman Middle School, officially signed the 2024 K-12 education budget bill on Wednesday.
Kansas lawmakers have passed a bipartisan budget for K-12 public education that includes an increase in special education funding. Senate Bill 387 passed the House 115-2 and the Senate 35-2 on Friday.
But every other Johnson and Wyandotte County district would have gained funding, including an additional $1.1. million in the Shawnee Mission School District. Wichita Public Schools would lost ...
The Kansas experiment was detrimental to state tax revenues and funding, especially to the Kansas Department of Education, which saw drastic budget cuts. Wyandotte High School in Wyandotte County, Kansas (pictured) was among the public schools hit hardest by Brownback's tax cuts. [44]
The Kansas Board of Regents is a body consisting of nine members that governs six state universities in the U.S. state of Kansas.In addition to these six universities, it also supervises and coordinates nineteen community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal university.
The Board helps determine educational policy for the state's primary and secondary schools. The Kansas State Board of Education was created to replace the position of Kansas State Superintendent of Public Instruction effective January 14, 1969, pursuant to an amendment to the Kansas Constitution adopted November 8, 1966.
State senators voted down the bill 12 to 26 amid opposition from education groups.
Sebelius also proposed to use another $384 million in stimulus funds for public schools, split between fiscal 2010 and fiscal 2011. [14] The Governor suggested in February 2009 that the state move $225 million into the state's main bank account from other state government accounts however, in late February Republicans in both the House and the ...