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KCKPS board reviews building needs assessments; staff to disaggregate data and firm up budget timeline
Summary
Kansas City Kansas Public Schools officials explained this year’s written guidance and data sources for building needs assessments, answered board questions about how assessments were completed, and agreed to provide disaggregated elementary/middle/high summaries and an updated budget timeline before June.
Kansas City Kansas Public Schools’ board and central staff spent much of a May 1 special meeting reviewing how this year’s building needs assessments were completed and how those assessments will feed the district budget process.
Board members asked for greater clarity and more disaggregated reporting; district staff said they will provide updated reports and a budget timeline. The discussion centered on the guidance principals received, the data sources used, and the schedule for forthcoming budget decisions.
Why it matters: The needs assessments inform principals’ budget decisions and the district’s allocation of classroom staff, Title and general funds. Board members said the way assessment responses were presented this year made it hard to see differences between elementary, middle and high schools and asked for separate summaries aligned to each…
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