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Kansas Association of School Boards, 2016
The percentage of public school students qualifying for free or reduced price meals has increased from about 33 percent to nearly 50 percent over the past 15 years. Kansas uses the number of students eligible for free (but not reduced-price) lunch to determine the amount of funding school districts receive to provide for services to at-risk…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Low Income Groups, Poverty, School Districts
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Latimer, Marvin E., Jr.; Bergee, Martin J.; Cohen, Mary L. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability and perceived pedagogical utility of a multidimensional weighted performance assessment rubric used in Kansas state high school large-group festivals. Data were adjudicator rubrics (N = 2,016) and adjudicator and director questionnaires (N = 515). Rubric internal consistency was…
Descriptors: Music Activities, State Programs, Performance Based Assessment, Weighted Scores
Thornton, Robert J. – 1981
The author tests several ways in which income can be added to property wealth to improve the measurement of school-district fiscal capacity. His first chapter discusses the economic and legal reasons for this improvement, notes that seven states already combine income and property, and distinguishes adding income and property together from…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Elementary Secondary Education, Fiscal Capacity, Geographic Regions