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2 Kansas school districts to close early because of budgets

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2 Kansas school districts to close early because of budgets | The Wichita Eagle The Wichita Eagle

The Concordia school district will release students May 15, rather than May 21. And the Twin Valley School District, which includes Bennington and Tescott, will dismiss May 8, rather than May 20.
Concordia Superintendent Bev Mortimer said students have hugged her in thanks for the early release. “They remember me as the snow day lady,” she said. “We are popular with the kids but not the parents.”

Kansas school districts are facing financial pressures after losing $51 million they expected to receive for the current school year after Gov. Sam Brownback signed a school funding overhaul bill in March. The new school funding plan scraps the previous formula for determining state aid and replaces it with block grants, which will give districts a fixed amount of money for the next two years while the Legislature develops a new formula.
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good job Gov Brownback! the future is looking bright in Kansas.
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Yet, the rest of the state school districts remain open.

How is that?

I smell political grandstanding, misappropriation of funds, or both.
 
You should be smelling the colossal failure of the voodoo economics practice by Brownback instead.

From what I'm seeing with online teacher vacancies, Kansas looks likes teachers are fleeing in record numbers, just as with New Jersey .

Erod said:
Yet, the rest of the state school districts remain open.

How is that?

I smell political grandstanding, misappropriation of funds, or both.
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Quality districts provide quality education and produce quality students....always.

The opposite do the opposite...always, no matter how much money you throw at them.

It's a Darwin thing.
 
Erod said:
Quality districts provide quality education and produce quality students....always.

The opposite do the opposite...always, no matter how much money you throw at them.

It's a Darwin thing.
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This is correct. And "quality districts" doesn't just mean the teachers and administrators.... it includes the parents.
 
Erod said:
Yet, the rest of the state school districts remain open.

How is that?

I smell political grandstanding, misappropriation of funds, or both.
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I suspect you are right, since closing 2 districts for 18 days will save only save $30,000
 
Josie said:
This is correct. And "quality districts" doesn't just mean the teachers and administrators.... it includes the parents.
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In fact, it's MOSTLY the parents.
 
Josie said:
This is correct. And "quality districts" doesn't just mean the teachers and administrators.... it includes the parents.
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Don't know if you remember me. But I'm becoming a teacher too. Wish me luck.
 
winston53660 said:
Don't know if you remember me. But I'm becoming a teacher too. Wish me luck.
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Of course I remember you! What will your certification be in?
 
Dont you know the sun is shining on Kansas!?
 
Erod said:
Yet, the rest of the state school districts remain open.

How is that?

I smell political grandstanding, misappropriation of funds, or both.
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It's called poor budgeting by the districts closing early
 
Josie said:
Of course I remember you! What will your certification be in?
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fine arts, i might take on the position of photo teacher at the first ever magnet school in the country.
 
SlevinKelevra said:
2 Kansas school districts to close early because of budgets | The Wichita Eagle The Wichita Eagle




good job Gov Brownback! the future is looking bright in Kansas.
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Maybe the Gov really did do a good job, after all, he doesn't write the budget himself and it has to pass through their congress.

Next, it may very well be similar to a problem that we have in Texas with a lot of School Districts, namely, they spend too much on administrators and thus hurt students and teachers. When budgets are cut, it is teaching positions and other things that take the brunt. You rarely see a district actually reduce Administrative positions.

The left loves the mantra of spending more money on schools, but rarely, if ever, take the time to look at where that money goes and never do anything about the waste, mismanagement, fraud and abuse. It is rarely a problem with the availability of funds, but rather the allocation of the available funds.

At the budget level, the US spends more per student than any other nation in the world. At the classroom level, we don't even come close to being the top.
 
SlevinKelevra said:
2 Kansas school districts to close early because of budgets | The Wichita Eagle The Wichita Eagle




good job Gov Brownback! the future is looking bright in Kansas.
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How naive.

Do you even know what schools do on the last 6 days anyway? Hardly anything gets accomplished. They can just push the finals up a little and the kids lose maybe a day or two of studying (well, technically they lose none, the impetus is on them to get their ass off the couch and be diligent).

The meme isn't funny.
 
Education is kansas is pretty worthless anyway. They believe their real dilemma is getting the bible into schools. When learning at home produces better results, there's a systemic problem. Kansas is facing this budget crisis before other states (which will come) because it's sparsely populated, due in large part to its backwards nature.

What will be interesting in the coming years is whether K-12 will be some kind of universal legislated right anymore, or we revert back to 1800s, when school beyond 5th grade was rare. Lack of money has this curious way of causing people to reassess their principles. The fact is that high school, at least, is not needed in the 21st century. Now, that's only because it's so underfunded and god awful, but i don't see evidence there's any realistic chance of fixing that, especially in states like kansas.
 
Welcome to Republican land.....the land where the rich get richer and everyone else loses schools, health care, jobs, incomes, decent food and water and anything else they care about. Is this the America we really want or is it about time we all took to the streets?
 
JANFU said:
Amazing planning by the Governor, at the near end of the school year.
I am sure some will love him for it though.
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That is one busy Governor. He plans everything in the state down to elementary school budgets.
 
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