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Cato: Spending more on schools doesn’t improve achievement
A recent study from Cato Institute contradicts two common beliefs about the Kansas education system. The authors of a 50-state…
Occupational license for eyebrow threading?
Arif Karowalia is always looking to hire people to do eyebrow threading at his three Kansas salons, but state licensing…
Wichita Eagle warns average ACT scores will likely dip
The average ACT score of Kansas high school students is likely to drop this year, the Wichita Eagle reports in…
Lawmakers, Governor Draw Battle Lines on KPERS Repayment
With unanimous consent in both the Kansas House and Senate, a bill that will repay $115 million to Kansas’s public…
$15 Minimum wage proposed for Kansas
Kansas House Bill 2022 proposes to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour in Kansas by 2021. The bill…
Hope scholarship would help bullied students
Bullies started targeting Claire Tietgen at school when she was a first grader. Since that time, she’s transferred to eight…
KNEA opposes teacher supply stipend
Teacher unions have often complained about teachers having to use their own money to buy classroom supplies, but the state’s…
Sen. Denning: Star’s Legal Defense ‘Absurd’
The Kansas City Star wants a defamation lawsuit against it thrown out, because it violates the First Amendment. Senate Majority…
Media pushes Medicaid expansion with slanted coverage of Oswego hospital closure
An AON study for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment says Medicaid expansion would have netted Oswego Rural Hospital…
Full House To Debate KPERS Re-Amortization Plan
Update: The House voted against the re-amortization plan Thursday afternoon by a vote of 87-36. Members of the Kansas House…
Right-sizing courts could raise judicial pay
Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss wants another $22 million to improve judicial pay but right-sizing Kansas courts could…
Bill sponsors still hard to find despite rule changes
HB 2175, sponsored by the House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development, would impose a monthly fee on any…
More money won’t end school funding litigation
Even if legislators give schools the extra $90 million per year that the Department of Education says is needed to…
Civil asset forfeiture reform gaining ground in Kansas
Civil asset forfeiture, or civil forfeiture as it’s also known, is a process that allows law enforcement to confiscate private…
Staff Buyouts To Shrink Star, Eagle Parent by 10 Percent
McClatchy, the parent company of the Kansas City Star and the Wichita Eagle, announced it will offer voluntary buyouts to…
Universities largely to blame for tuition hikes, not Legislature
Kansas college students are incurring a lot more debt to pay tuition and fees than they were a decade ago,…
KS Senate Set To Repay $115M to KPERS
Kansas senators launched an opening salvo on the budget today, forwarding to final action a bill that would make a…
Governor Kelly’s budget leads to large deficits
Senate Democrats objecting to returning the ‘federal windfall’ to taxpayers say doing so would produce a negative ending balance in…
Kansas Sales Tax 8th Highest in the Nation
Kansas has the eighth highest state and local average sales tax rate, according to a new study from the Tax…
Capital-Journal treats school funding rumor as fact
Despite a lack of evidence or confirmation, the Topeka Capital-Journal printed allegations from Democrats saying House Speaker Ron Ryckman, (R)…
Voter fraud prosecution may shift to Attorney General
Attorney General Derek Schmidt advocated to a Kansas House committee to eliminate the Kansas Secretary of State’s authority to prosecute…
Sen. Jim Denning sues KC Star for defamation
Kansas Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning, (R) Overland Park, is suing the Kansas City Star and columnist Steve Rose for…
KSNW-TV reporting on highway funding is wrong
KSNW-TV in Wichita says Gov. Laura Kelly’s budget will cease highway funding transfers from the Kansas Department of Transportation. A…
School Choice Advocates Rally in Topeka
The state of Kansas has made strides in providing school choice opportunity for some students, but there’s still work to…