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Board of Regents presses budget priorities: literacy coaching, need-based aid and $1.6B deferred maintenance backlog
Summary
Kansas Board of Regents President Blake Flanders and fiscal analyst Dayton Lemunyan briefed the Committee on Higher Education Budget on KBOR—s FY26-FY27 budget, detailing reappropriations (~$26.7M), deleted enhancement requests (energy projects, student success initiatives), governor—s adjustments (including $8.6M for the blueprint for literacy) and a campus restoration and deferred maintenance portfolio totaling roughly $1.6 billion.
Dr. Blake Flanders, president of the Kansas Board of Regents, told the Committee on Higher Education Budget that KBOR—s unified appropriation request emphasizes student success, campus restoration and targeted workforce programs while keeping the overall SGF ask to roughly a 1% increase.
"Majority of Kansas students are not reading at grade level, 55.5%," Flanders said as he urged continued investment in the statewide Blueprint for Literacy initiative. He described the blueprint as a large workforce development effort and said his board recommended $5.5 million while the governor—s recommendation…
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