BALDWIN CITY — State Representative TerriLois Gregory (R, Baldwin City) told an audience of about 50 on Monday “this evening is an educational process for you.”
Gregory held a debate over K-12 school funding in anticipation of a battle in the Kansas Legislature next year.  Gregory  said  ”You’re going to sit in a legislator’s seat .  [...]

What could Kansas do with an extra $743 million? That’s a question legislators and the governor-elect want answered.
Kansas K-12 schools had $1.567 billion in unencumbered or carryover cash on July 1 and as much as $743 million of it could be made available for discretionary spending by school districts, according to state government research.
Those numbers, [...]

Kansas educators are gearing up for another tough year stuck between the unrelenting rock of increasing mandates for student performance and the hard place of an economic downturn that shows little sign of going away.
The Kansas Association of School Boards’ is holding an education campaign, “Student Achievement in Tough Economic Times: Issues for the 2010 [...]

UPDATE: Changes 2010 spending of unencumbered funds to reflect revised report from USD259 Wichita.
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Kansas House Education Budget committee members voted Monday to give schools across the state more flexibility to replace their shares of $85.9 million federal educational stimulus money that is scheduled to vanish next year.
Committee members approved [...]