KASB News

Kansas K-12 Awaiting Finalized SPED and Gannon Funding Bill

Posted Date: 04/12/2024

In the early hours of Saturday, April 6, Kansas House and Senate negotiators agreed to a conference committee report on House Sub for SB 387 after it failed in the Senate on April 4. This bill . . .

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Haviland Uses Strong Relationships to Power High Academic Results

Posted Date: 04/10/2024

Haviland USD 474 is one of the smallest districts in the state with just 119 students and only grades kindergarten through eighth. Their reading and math results are among the highest in Kansas. In . . .

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Education Groups United in Opposition to SB 387

Posted Date: 04/03/2024

KASB, USA-Kansas, the Kansas State Board of Education, KASEA and KNEA oppose SB 387 as agreed to in conference. This bill does not include a long-range plan to fully fund special education. Instead, . . .

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Comanche County Helps Students Prepare for the World in a Small Community

Posted Date: 04/02/2024

One path to success is sometimes to turn perceived weaknesses into strengths. With about 330 students in a county-wide district on the border in southwest Kansas, Comanche County USD 300 leaders . . .

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Survey Provides Insights on Teacher Engagement and Retention

Posted Date: 04/02/2024

A new survey of Kansas teacher attitudes offers ideas on how to help keep educators in the profession at a time when most school leaders say finding and keeping teachers is one of their greatest . . .

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Being Brian: Create Coherence by Aligning Goals and Resources

Posted Date: 03/27/2024

I often tell school board members through the strategic planning process they can do anything they want as a school district, just not everything. It is the time of the year when school boards . . .

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Hays Embraces "Good to Great" Mentality

Posted Date: 03/26/2024

Hays USD 489 has the largest enrollment in northwest Kansas with around 3,100 students. It is also getting some of the highest student success results in the state when considering its size and . . .

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Individualized Attention Boosts Assessment Scores and Graduation Rates in Great Bend

Posted Date: 03/20/2024

Great Bend USD 428 is a central Kansas district of 2,900 students. I visited as part of my tour of schools that perform above expectations based on family income and student disability rates. Great . . .

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Kansas Teaching Requirements and How Districts Can Help Develop Teachers

Posted Date: 03/15/2024

Teacher vacancies reported in Kansas public schools reached 1,810 positions this past fall and school leaders frequently say one of their greatest challenges is finding highly qualified . . .

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Registered Teacher Apprenticeship Applications Due June 1

Posted Date: 03/14/2024

The Kansas State Department of Education is taking applications through June 1 for districts seeking to participate in the new Registered Teacher Apprenticeship program in Fall 2024. The program . . .

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