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Key players
- The 2007 legislative session will chug along with shifting alliances on issue after issue. Here are some of the heavy hitters who will be driving the train.
Keeping track
- www.kansas.gov The general state of Kansas Web site with links to state agencies and numerous other resources.
- www.kslegislature.org The Legislature’s Web site. You can look up bills, track their progress and get committee information. You can also find out who your legislator is and how to get in touch with him or her.
- www.kslib.info The Kansas State Library Web site that has links to governmental Web sites that cover just about every issue in the public domain.
- To check on a bill or leave a message for a legislator by telephone, call the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-432-3924.
- Attorney says legislature nearing violation of Supreme Court’s school finance order
- April 30, 2009
- An attorney who won a school finance lawsuit against the state of Kansas says legislators are headed toward violating state Supreme Court orders.
- Stimulus funding helps prevent further cuts to Kansas public education
- March 9, 2009
- It appears Kansas public schools are going to avoid deep cuts, thanks to the federal stimulus package.
- Lawrence school district preparing for cuts
- February 12, 2009
- The Lawrence school district is preparing for cuts for next year.
- Governor’s budget proposal means cuts to local schools
- Plan would result in less funding per pupil
- 09:18 a.m., January 15, 2009 Updated 12:17 p.m.
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ plan to hold harmless public school finance actually does harm school districts in that it will result in less funding on a per pupil basis, officials confirmed Thursday.
- Regents discuss budget shortfall for higher education
- November 19, 2008
- Duane Goossen, Kansas’ budget director, discusses with the state’s Board of Regents what he called a very tough financial situation facing higher education.
- Budget office: School funding could face cuts
- November 13, 2008
- Funding to Kansas public schools would face a cut under a proposal made by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ budget office, officials said Thursday.
- Baldwin voters approve $26 million school bond issue
- November 4, 2008
- Baldwin School District voters Tuesday approved a $22.9 million building bond issue.
- District to minimize potential tax increase
- July 10, 2008
- Lawrence schools Superintendent Randy Weseman said Wednesday that it would take a 2-mill increase to maintain existing services for next year. But he has asked staff members to prepare scenarios to tighten budgets that don’t directly affect classroom instruction because school board members have indicated they want anywhere from a flat mill levy to a 0.8 mill increase.
- Schools feel the squeeze
- Fuel and food prices taking toll
- July 9, 2008
- Gasoline and food prices are draining households of cash. Now, imagine if you had to feed and transport thousands of children each day. That’s what area school districts face as they prepare for students’ return to school next month. Superintendents and school boards are crafting budgets - and trying to determine how to find money to handle fuel and food costs.
- Federal grant nets schools $750,000
- July 3, 2008
- A community effort paid off for Eudora schools when the district received word Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Education had awarded it a four-year $750,000 grant to promote healthy living.
- Audit reveals school district spending on instruction, teacher salaries rises
- June 19, 2008
- More than 70 percent of increased spending by school districts in recent years went toward student instruction, a new audit says. The audit was done at the request of lawmakers who asked how school districts spent funding increases that were approved by the Legislature after 2005, when the Kansas Supreme Court ordered more dollars for schools.
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