As the world processes the results of the 2024 election cycle, one thing we should all agree on is that elections have consequences. The 2024 elections will undoubtedly have consequences for our association and its members. The pressing question is the extent of these...
As reported yesterday, the Legislature is busy working through the last scheduled week of the 2024 legislative session. The conferees for the House and Senate Committees on Education have met several times in the last two days. Today’s afternoon conference committee...
Week 13 of the 2024 Kansas legislative session is about to begin. Many issues still need to be resolved, and several pieces of legislation are alive and well. The legislature gave itself one extra day off by finishing all scheduled debates early and went home on...
House Sub for SB 387, the dreaded mega-school funding bill that adds several pieces of policy to the House K-12 budget. Policy like the following: Elimination of the SPED funding task force, Implementation of a controversial at-risk accountability plan, and Additional...
The second half of the session is starting to gain momentum but moving like a train up a hill, which is probably a good thing. Hastily passed bills debated in the darkness of night seldom end in good policy, so slowly easing into the last half of the session is a...
