1. Kansas Leads the World in the Success of Each Student.
Dr. Randy Watson, Kansas Commissioner of Education

3. School Funding Update
Bill passed out of K-12 Education Budget Committee Monday
Funding provides $286 million over two years, then CPI for next three
Now goes on to debate on the House floor

4. Kansas leads the world in the success of each student..
A NEW Vision for Kansas….
Kansas leads the world in the success of each student..
Based on the feedback received across the state, the board has adopted as its new vision for education “Kansas leads the world in the success of each student.”
We intend to challenge the status quo, move away from placing emphasis on a single test score and focus more on helping each student identify and achieve their career aspirations.
Teachers, administrators and support staff already are doing great work preparing Kansas’ students for success, and this new vision stands to unite our efforts across the state. You will hear us say we need to rethink how our schools are asked to operate. From a state perspective, we will look at every requirement to determine if and how we are supporting or impeding our schools’ abilities to address the needs of each child.

6. Five Year Graduation Rate
Kansans Can
Lead the World!
Graduation: 95%
Effective Rate: 70-75%
Five Year Graduation Rate
84.2%
Five Year
Success Rate
55.1%
Five Year
Effective Rate
46.4%
83.1
55.2
45.9
85.2
53.6
45.7
85.8
55.7
47.8
86.1
56.1
48.3
The numerator and denominator in the Five Year Rates contain total student counts over five years ( ). .
Graduation Rate: The 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate is the number of students who graduate in four years with a regular high school diploma divided by the
number of students who entered high school as 9th graders four years earlier (adjusting for transfers in and out).
Success Rate: The sum of the percentage of students who enrolled in postsecondary in both the first and second year following high school graduation plus the
percentage of students who graduated from postsecondary.
Effective Rate: The calculated Graduation Rate multiplied by the calculated Success Rate.

7. Risk Factors Risk Factors than influence success Cumulative Poverty
Chronic Absenteeism
Mobility
ELL Population
Disabled Student Population
Percent of New Teachers

10. Creating a Vision for Kansas
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”
- John F. Kennedy

11. Kansans Can School Redesign
Seven school districts in Kansas chosen to participate
One elementary and one secondary school from each district

12. Kansans Can School Redesign
District projects will be named after original seven Mercury astronauts
Scott Carpenter
Gordon Cooper
John Glenn
Gus Grissom
Wally Schirra
Alan Shepard
Deke Slayton

13. Kansans Can School Redesign
Districts will study and learn in
Mercury Phase and LAUNCH in
Gemini Phase in
Apollo Phase in
Landing on the Moon in

14. Change is hard at first,
messy in the middle,
and gorgeous at the end. – Robin Sharma

15. Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas
Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas. Kansans Can achieve anything and, together, Kansans Can lead the world in the success of each student.