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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.
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.
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 National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education, in 2006, reported that, in the fall of 2004, the Wichita Public Schools ranked 91st largest, by total enrollment, among all school districts in the nation. It also indicated that the Wichita Public Schools, in 2003–2004, had a total revenue of $452,437,000.
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.
Statewide elections for the Kansas Board of Education are held every four years. According to Christopher Lee, small town Kansas high schools used football as a way to entertain and unite their rural communities. The schools were too small for 11-man teams so they adopted the six-man team system developed by Stephen E. Epler.
State senators voted down the bill 12 to 26 amid opposition from education groups.
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.