Republican lawmakers are eying punitive measures for Kansas school districts, including potentially having them repay state aid meant to target students who are the highest risk of not graduating, after a state audit found that administrators haven’t followed strict guidelines for those funds. Among several other education issues, the Kansas Legislature’s Special Committee on Education honed in on the results of a report this summer from the Kansas Legislative Post Audit that examined how schools used more than $400 million in at-risk funding during the 2021-22 school year. … The audit, released over the summer as a follow-up to a 2019 audit, had found several continuing deficiencies in the way schools have been spending that funding, as well as manner in which the Kansas State Department of Education guides and oversees that funding.
Source: Hutch News
