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Governor:Sam Brownback
Commissioner of Education:Diane DeBacker
Quality Counts state grade:C
Pre-K-12 enrollment:483,701
Number of school districts:298
Number of public schools:1,378
Number of public school teachers:34,644
Unadjusted education spending per student:$9,972
Percent minority students:32.0%
Percent of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch:47.3%
Percent of students with disabilities:13.8%
Percent of English-language learners:8.1%
NAEP Mathematics 2011 percent proficient
4th grade math:47.7%
8th grade math:40.8%
NAEP Reading 2011 percent proficient
4th grade reading:36.1%
8th grade reading:35.5%

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Nearly eight years ago, the Kansas City, Kan., school system adopted an ambitious but untried plan to transform its schools into more personalized and academically rigorous learning communities. An independent report released last week suggests the district’s long-running gamble is paying off.
July 12, 2005 - Education Week
Kansas lawmakers appropriated $148 million last week in K-12 spending to comply with an order from the state supreme court in a long-running school finance case.
July 12, 2005 - Education Week
The Kansas Supreme Court has declared the state’s education spending adequate, effectively ending a two-week special legislative session and resolving, at least for now, the prolonged battle between the legislature and the courts over how Kansas finances K-12 education.
July 12, 2005 - Education Week (Web)
Legislative leaders scheduled a special session, to begin June 22, after the state supreme court released an opinion this month declaring that the legislature must come up with $143 million for the new school year as a first step toward fixing the state’s school finance system.
June 14, 2005 - Education Week
Again, Kansas brings itself into the national spotlight by attempting to water down science education.
June 14, 2005 - Education Week
June 3, 2005 - Education Week (Web)
The theory of evolution was subjected to the first of several courtroom-style hearings in Kansas last week, an occasion colored by detailed testimony, forceful cross-examinations, and quarrels over biological events that occurred millions of years ago.
May 10, 2005 - Education Week
The theory of evolution was subjected to the first of several courtroom-style hearings in Kansas this week, an occasion colored by detailed testimony, forceful cross-examinations, and quarrels over biological events that occurred millions of years ago.
May 6, 2005 - Education Week (Web)
As yet another drama unfolds over the teaching of evolution in Kansas, highlighted this time by a series of upcoming public hearings on the topic, several groups from the mainstream scientific community say they will not participate.
April 26, 2005 - Education Week
Even with a wave of agreement about the importance of such subject matter, experts say the movement to infuse international education into the curriculum is hitting resistance at the state, district, and school levels.
April 19, 2005 - Education Week

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