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Proposed new funding formulas could affect districts' ability to repay, credit rating agencies say.
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Choice of guaranteed passing grades are for local school board to make, state board chairman says.
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Unorthodox grading system assures students in two Kansas high schools will get C's or higher in their courses.
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State education department reports 11 years of rising achievement; U.S. Education Department and ACT college testing service see smaller changes.
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Board of Ed seeks reprieve from 2014 federal education act requirements.
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Few rise to the top third of the world's classes, many fall into the bottom half, according to a presidential website.
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Educators want a plan that measures students' progress instead of comparing the same classes each year.
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Fewer than half tell a KansasReporter poll they plan to use special-fund reserve for basic education; others say thay want more time to study the idea.
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The request, to bring state school spending up to statutory requirements, "will be dead on arrival," one board member predicts.
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Kansas education officials, hoping to steer student success measurements away from tough federally mandated standards, plan to develop an alternative system that tracks individual pupil progress.
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