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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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November 8, 1989 - Education Week
A group of prominent school-law experts is backing a novel lawsuit that urges the creation of a voucher program to enable black schoolchildren in Kansas City to attend desegregated private schools at public expense.
August 2, 1989 - Education Week
Washington--The U.S. Supreme Court last week effectively ensured that a multi-million-dollar school-desegregation effort in Kansas City, Mo., will continue as planned.
May 3, 1989 - Education Week
District and teachers' union officials in Kansas City, Mo., have unveiled a restructuring plan that would allow teachers to earn up to $77,000 a year by 1994 in return for taking on more school-based responsibilities.

The proposal, described at a school-board meeting last month, calls for a career-ladder program for both teachers and administrators, a peer-review program for teachers, expanded school-site management, and a longer school year.

April 5, 1989 - Education Week
A proposal by an unusual alliance of Kansas teachers and business leaders to raise sales-tax revenues and split the profits equally between education and highway contruction appears headed for defeat in the legislature.

Lobbyists predicted last week that the House would reject an amended version of the bill that would earmark all of the new revenues--estimated at $1.4 billion over 11 years--for road construction.

March 22, 1989 - Education Week

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