November 21, 2024

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Tag: legislative post audit

economic development

Audit identifies concerns about state economic development incentives

A new report from the Kansas Division of Legislative Post Audit identifies serious deficiencies in several economic development incentive programs…

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State audit: just spending more won’t improve achievement

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is touting recent slight increases in state assessments as proof that more spending results in improved…

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Wichita State prof: keep kids in underperforming schools

The folksy saying that goes ‘Don’t spit on my boots and try to tell me it’s raining’ means ‘don’t try…

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Incompetence, not computers, seems to be majority of unemployment woes

The current snarl that is the Kansas Unemployment system — and the massive levels of fraud inflicted upon the state…

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Audit: $20 million Angel Investor program rife with problems

A damning report from the Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit says the Angel Investor tax credit program designed to…

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State agencies that ignored lobbying audit inquiry named

(editor’s note: a previous version of this story said Kansas Public Employees Retirement System didn’t respond to the audit request,…

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Kansas school board chair rejects audit findings in contradiction-laden column

After a scathing editorial by the Kansas City Star called out school districts across Kansas for misusing funding for at-risk…

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Audit finds state incentives often aren’t used as intended

Less than 20 percent of funds appropriated for state economic development programs are used the way lawmakers originally intended, according…

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