The activists of Stand Up Blue Valley (SUBV) are working hard to protect the bureaucracy at students’ expense by pushing another set of deceitful and blatantly false claims to hide the truth about student achievement. Like most school districts, many students do very well, but that isn’t true for others, and SUBV seems intent on keeping it that way.
The first falsity may result from misreading the state Constitution, so I’ll give them a little grace. The Constitution does not “mandate that public schools be funded by the state,” as SUBV claims. Article 6 says, “The legislature shall make suitable provision for finance of the educational interests of the state.”
‘Make suitable provision’ is not the same as ‘shall fund.’ (Nor are “public schools” the same as “educational interests.”) The Legislature could provide for schools to be entirely funded by local property tax, but it allows for a mix of state and local funding. The most current Census data shows that states, on average, provide 45% of school funding; the local share is 44%, and federal funding makes up the balance. In Kansas, the state provides 66% of funding (the sixth highest allocation in the nation), and only 25% is local.
Other facts that disprove their angry narrative include:
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