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Kansas: Governor cuts school aid amid budget changes
State universities, community colleges and technical schools will lose an additional $15 million because of Parkinson’s actions. The universities already planned to raise tuition in the fall.
Mark Tallman, a lobbyist for the Kansas Association of School Boards, said school districts already had anticipated cutting their staffs by about 3,000 in the coming school year. He said summer school programs, coaching staffs and bus routes are especially vulnerable.
He noted that districts still face federal requirements to continue improving students’ scores on standardized reading and math tests.
“No one is saying, ‘OK, what you’re doing is enough,’” he said. “We’re still hearing, ‘You’ve got to do even more. You’ve got to do even better.’”
The state started ramping up spending on public schools in 2005 because of Kansas Supreme Court rulings in an education funding lawsuit. The state’s backtracking already has inspired talk of new litigation from school districts and parents.
Parkinson’s announcement came the same day the federal government announced that the nation’s unemployment rate hit a 26-year high in June, at 9.5 percent. The economy has created months of budget problems for states, and several, including California and Illinois, began their new fiscal years without spending plans in place.
Parkinson’s new round of cuts are targeted, because some general government agencies already had seen double-digit reductions in their budgets. The state has closed minimum-security prison units and increased court fees.
The governor announced that the state also will suspend operations at the Beloit Juvenile Correctional Facility in north-central Kansas on Aug. 28 and trim $30 million from highway maintenance projects.
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