Tag: Kansans Can
Kansas Chamber poll: business leaders call for tax cuts, improving competitiveness in 2024
A year-end poll of 300 Kansas business leaders finds tax cuts, making the state’s economy more competitive, and workforce development…
Miserable outcomes indicate KSDE should abandon “Kansans Can” and get back to academics
The Kansas Department of Education introduced its current gimmick – “Kansans Can” – in 2016 with great fanfare. Instead of…
Really, KSDE? Bragging about a record grade inflation rate?
The Kansas Department of Education conducted a fifty-city “Kansans Can Success Tour” in 2021 that felt like high school pep…
KASB report is a modern-day Emperor’s New Clothes tale
In Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes, two swindlers arrive at the capital city of an emperor who spends…
KSDE de-emphasizes instruction in new accounting handbook
The new KSDE Accounting Handbook provides another stark reminder that academics and the importance of instruction are being de-emphasized in…