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KASB Research: August 2015
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015. Comparing Apples and Studebakers. In the previous five blog posts, we discussed Peer States, Aspiration States, and High Impact States. We also looked at funding formula components and talked about funding fairness. Let’s review what we found. Here are the Peer States, from most similar to least:. We concluded the following:. 5/7 peer states, or 70% spend more per pupil than Kansas. 7/7 peer states, or 100% have lower student outcomes than Kansas on at least 8/14 outcome measures.
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KASB Research: September 2014
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Monday, September 29, 2014. Poverty in Kansas - How Are We Doing? A colleague of mine shared this report. From Oklahoma related to poverty and household income, and asked me if there was anything similar available for Kansas. I told her that aside from the report. KASB did recently about at-risk funding and poverty, there wasn't much to be found out there, so I decided to do some brief analysis myself. Based on data obtained from the US Census Bureau. How are families in Kansas doing? Family incomes over...
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KASB Research: No Fair, No Fair!
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015. No Fair, No Fair! We’ve been talking a lot about what states we should be comparing Kansas to, and have come up with several methods. We’ve also talked about what each state’s funding formula looks like. In this blog post, we will look at the fairness of funding in Kansas. Http:/ www.schoolfundingfairness.org/National Report Card 2015.pdf. Per Pupil Funding Level:. Distribution of funding across local districts within a state, relative to student poverty. Indicates whether a...
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KASB Research: Leveling the Playing Field
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Monday, August 3, 2015. Leveling the Playing Field. In previous posts, we’ve talked about identifying Peer States and Aspiration States, and about comparing their demographics, funding, and outcomes to Kansas. In this post, we’re going to talk about how to compare states on certain measures while removing the influence of others. In the previous posts, we identified six categories into which our 44 state-level measures fall:. In order to test out these assertions, we would need a way to remove the effect...
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KASB Research: The Secret Formula
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. So now we’ve come up with sixteen states to compare with Kansas - seven peer. States, five aspiration. States, and four higher impact. States. The next question is, what do we want to compare when looking at these states? We should, of course, start with the variables that were used in the initial analysis. But what else? Https:/ schoolfinancesdav.wordpress.com/. The following are the categories Verstegen presented in the survey, and Kansas’ responses on each:. It is a linear tr...
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KASB Leadership Services: March 2014
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Monday, March 3, 2014. Get In The Game. One of the greatest challenges of leadership is moving people forward when they would rather stand still. As a former coach (some would say old coach) I can remember many times telling players to “get in the game.” It was a phrase used to motivate, inspire, and push for better performance. It was generally used when situations were tough and the scoreboard was not in our favor. How can we influence others and help generate support for public education?
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KASB Leadership Services: April 2014
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014. How do we get aligned? In the recent months KASB Leadership Services has been working with service centers throughout the state to align supports and provide a systemic approach to developing leadership at all levels. Refers to this as the “What Matters Most” framework. Supports provided are divided into two levels: Foundational Learning. Those supports found within the Foundational Level. Supports take educational leaders through deeper learning experiences that will result in th...
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KASB Research: January 2015
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Friday, January 30, 2015. National Study Finds School Funding Matters. A working paper written by researchers from Northwestern University and UC-Berkeley indicates that increases in education spending as a result of court-mandated school finance reforms lead to more completed years of education, higher wages, and a reduction in adult poverty. Here are some of the findings:. Reform-induced school spending increases were tied to fewer students per teacher, higher teacher salaries, and longer school years.
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Tallman Education Report: September 2014
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Saturday, September 20, 2014. Tentative K-12 Commission recommendations, September 18-19. K-12 Student Performance and Efficiency Commission. Made a series of recommendations over its two-day meeting on September 18-19. The commission worked from a. Agreed to ask the Kansas State Board of Education to establish measurable standards for determining whether districts are meeting the goal of providing students with the capacities adopted by the Supreme Court, Legislature and Governor, called the. Agreed to ...
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Tallman Education Report: Are school district ending balances too high?
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Are school district ending balances too high? Each July, Kansas school boards receive reports from their superintendents on the unencumbered cash balance of specific funds as of July 1. As districts struggle with tough choices as budgets get adopted over the next month, questions are expected to be raised about whether cash balances are too high. The third reason for cash balances is to allow for planned expenses in the future without borrowing. For individuals, this might m...
