After dramatic debate, Kansas lawmakers shoot down school choice expansion Andrew Bahl, Topeka Capital-Journal © Rafael Garcia/The Capital-Journal Sitting at separated tables, the student winners of each Manhattan Catholic Schools classroom s spelling bee wait their turn at the schoolwide spelling bee Jan. 27, 2021.
After a dramatic series of twists and turns, a major school choice expansion in Kansas was shot down Friday in the Kansas Senate, with legislators now forced to find a path forward on funding the state s public schools.
The legislation narrowly passed the Kansas House on Friday but hit a snag in the Kansas Senate. Ultimately, supporters were unable to overcome skepticism from moderate Republicans over a sweeping new school choice program allowing families to use public per-pupil funding for private school tuition.
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MANHATTAN Every spring, the Manhattan Catholic Schools principal Mike Hubka this spring in his first year on the job sits down with the school s administrative staff to figure out what it will take to keep the school going for another year.
It is a process much like what Kansas public schools go through in the spring to get their school boards approval in the summer estimate the number of students and services needed and come up with a budget to pay for it.
But while public schools calculate much of their budgets on the state s funding per student (known as base aid per pupil), federal aid and a limited amount of local tax revenue, some private schools like Hubka s do those calculations essentially in reverse and set their tuition rates on the budgets they anticipate needing.