Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

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1	1	Session of 2025
2	2	SENATE BILL No. 49
3	3	By Committee on Education
4	4	1-21
5	5	AN ACT concerning education; relating to school districts; boards of
6	6	education; requiring attendance center needs assessments to be
7	7	conducted by the board and include input from board members,
8	8	teachers, school site councils and administrators; requiring that board
9	9	members receive certain state assessment data and identify allocations
10	10	of moneys in the district budget and budget summary; amending
11	11	K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 72-1163 and repealing the existing section.
12	12	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
13	13	Section 1. K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 72-1163 is hereby amended to read as
14	14	follows: 72-1163. (a) (1) Each year the board of education of a school
15	15	district shall conduct an assessment of the educational needs of each
16	16	attendance center in the district. Such assessment shall include input from
17	17	board members, teachers employed by the school district, school site
18	18	councils and attendance center administrators. The complete assessment
19	19	shall be published on the school district's website.
20	20	(2) Information obtained from such needs assessment shall be used
21	21	by the board when approving the budget of the school district to ensure
22	22	improvement in student academic performance.
23	23	(3) In the minutes of the meeting at which the board approves its
24	24	annual budget, the board shall include that such needs assessment was
25	25	provided to conducted by the board, that the board evaluated such
26	26	assessment and how the board used such assessment in the approval of the
27	27	school district's budget.
28	28	(b) (1) Each year, each member of the board shall receive state
29	29	assessment results for the school district. Such results shall indicate the
30	30	number of students who scored at each of the levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 on such
31	31	assessments.
32	32	(2) Each year, the board of education of a school district shall review
33	33	state assessment results and, as part of such review, shall document the
34	34	following:
35	35	(A) The barriers that must be overcome to have all students achieve
36	36	proficiency above level 2 for grade level academic expectations on such
37	37	assessments;
38	38	(B) any budget actions, including, but not limited to,
39	39	recommendations on reallocation of resources that should be taken to
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76	76	address and remove such barriers; and
77	77	(C) the amount of time the board estimates it will take for all students
78	78	to achieve proficiency above level 2 for grade level academic expectations
79	79	on the state assessments if such budget actions are implemented.
80	80	(3)(c) The budget of the school district shall allocate or reallocate
81	81	sufficient moneys in a manner reasonably calculated such that all students
82	82	may achieve the goal set forth in K.S.A. 72-3218(c), and amendments
83	83	thereto. The board also shall prepare a summary of the budget for the
84	84	school district. Any time moneys are allocated to a fund or existing moneys
85	85	are reallocated from one fund to another fund, such allocation or
86	86	reallocation shall be identified in the budget and summary. The budgets
87	87	and summary shall be in the form prescribed by the director pursuant to
88	88	K.S.A. 79-2926, and amendments thereto.
89	89	(b)(d) The budgets, the summary of the proposed budget, the needs
90	90	assessment and the state assessment documentation shall be on file at the
91	91	administrative offices of the school district and available on the school
92	92	district's website.
93	93	(c)(e) The notice required to be published by K.S.A. 79-2929, and
94	94	amendments thereto, shall include a statement that the budgets, the
95	95	summary of the proposed budget, the needs assessment and state
96	96	assessment documentation is on file at the administrative offices of the
97	97	district and available on the school district's website.
98	98	Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 72-1163 is hereby repealed.
99	99	Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
100	100	publication in the statute book.
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