Weekly Update
This Week’s Highlights:
Top story — Missouri’s School Funding Modernization Task Force confronts a core structural question: how to update local effort calculations tied to 2004 property values while ensuring assessment practices are consistent across counties. We break down the tradeoffs and what modernization could mean for state aid distribution.
Kansas — Lawmakers hear detailed testimony from KSDE on revised KAP cut scores and concordance tables, clarifying how the new proficiency threshold compares to the old standard. Meanwhile, cell phone legislation resets procedurally as the session enters its final month.
Missouri — The Senate debates restricting state funds for “low-earning” degree programs, and the House advances a media literacy pilot.
Feature — A new brief from the Data Quality Campaign examines how statewide longitudinal data systems must align design with purpose to effectively support students, families, and workforce decisions.