At-Risk

Legislature heads to conference committee week (3/27/2013)
	The House and Senate worked late into Tuesday night to finish floor debate on a long list of bills. The House took emergency final action on its bills last night and adjourned until next Monday. The Senate was scheduled to take final action this mo

Major education debates set for this week (3/23/2013)
	The last scheduled day for most committees to act on bills was March 22. The House and Senate will spend Monday-Wednesday debating bills on the floor. There are now only two weeks left in the regular session.

Budget, taxes, guns, elections, charter schools, more (3/13/2013)
	The House Appropriations Committee voted Tuesday to approve a budget bill that reduces spending levels proposed by Governor Sam Brownback, but did not consider any reductions in K-12 state aid. Also Tuesday, the House Tax Committee approved an alter

SB 224-Testimony (3/12/2013)
	School Finance Weightings

Voucher, audits, capital outlay hearings today; innovative districts and board elections ahead (2/18/2013)
	Bills to provide publicly funded scholarships to private schools for special education students and to broaden the use of capital outlay funds receive hearings today, with other major bills scheduled for hearings later this week.

This week at the Capitol (2/12/2013)
	KASB offers testimony on SB 109, 103 other bills coming for hearing later in the week.

SB 103-Testimony (2/11/2013)
	Definition of At-Risk Pupil

Planning for the weekend and the week ahead (2/8/2013)
	KASB has updated its list of major education bills introduced so far this session. The list includes key points under the most significant bills.

Constitutional amendment, collective bargaining, school finance court case update among topics on ne (2/7/2013)
	Tax hearing, next week's bills in committee: This is an quick summary of some of the current issues monitored by KASB.