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House agrees to Senate school finance plan amid tense negotiations

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After three days of sometimes testy and confrontational negotiations, House lawmakers agreed to accept the Senate's plan for funding public education to satisfy a...

UPDATED: House narrowly passes school policy bill

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(Updated to reflect more substance of the debate, comment from school boards association with edits throughout) The Kansas House on Tuesday narrowly passed a bill...

Education panel denies Legislature’s COVID spending plan

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The Kansas State Board of Education parted ways with the Legislature Wednesday when it agreed not to spend $9 million in federal COVID-19 relief...

Universities present tuition requests to Board of Regents

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The state's higher education community on Wednesday presented its tuition proposals to the Board of Regents for fiscal year 2020. The tuition requests cover full-time...

Key lawmaker links CRT to student depression

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In what may be a preview of the statehouse debate to come, a key Kansas lawmaker on Thursday linked critical race theory to student...

Gun-safety education bill based on NRA program advances

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Lawmakers are making another run at requiring the state Board of Education to draw up curriculum guidelines for gun-safety education that would include the...

Senate Ed chair cautions state school board on CRT

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The chair of the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday warned the state school board that its statement on critical race theory is being viewed...

Latest Supreme Court ruling on education could be hard to fund, leading lawmakers say

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Less than a day after the Kansas Supreme Court ordered the state to put maybe as much $400 million more into schools, leading lawmakers...

Schmidt implores Legislature not to delay passage of school finance bill

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Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt on Friday warned the Legislature not to delay passage of a school  finance bill any longer. Schmidt pointed out that...

Senate president not optimistic about school choice bill

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Senate President Ty Masterson is not offering a promising outlook for a bill intended to provide school choice for at-risk students to attend private...