Kansas State Board of Education Meeting — Tuesday, Jan. 15

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The Kansas State Board of Education met Tuesday, Jan. 15.

From a policy standpoint, the highlights of their agenda were:

• Swearing in newly elected and re-elected board members Carolyn Wims-Campbell, Kathy Busch, Deena Horst, Jim McNiece and Steve Roberts. 
• Election of new board officers.
• A proposal to re-design the state’s Quality Performance Accreditation program by replacing Annual Yearly Performance reports (no longer required by the federal government, because the state has a waiver of No Child Left Behind requirements) with four Annual Measurable Objectives.
• Proposed new standards for teaching government, history and social studies.
• Update on development of voluntary new national Next Generation Science Standards.
• A report, K-12 Education: Estimating Potential Costs Related to Implementing the No Child Left Behind Waiver in Kansas:

The audit was organized around the four principles of the ESEA Flexibility Waiver of:

1) college and career readiness;
2) assessing student and school performance;
3) teacher and principal evaluation systems; and
4) reducing duplicate reporting and paperwork for school districts.

According to LPA, it is estimated that school districts could incur between $34 million to $63 million to
implement the four principles of the waiver.

• Attending Governor Sam Brownback’s State of the State Address.

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