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Weekly Update
This Week’s Highlights: Top story — Kansas lawmakers advance SB 517, a sweeping literacy bill focused on strengthening implementation, accountability, and early intervention as the state pushes toward a 90% third-grade reading goal. Kansas — Cell phone ban signed into law. And several education bills await…
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2025 Kansas Cradle to Career Listening Tour
At Aligned, we believe Kansas thrives when education and workforce systems work together. That belief guided us this year as we launched the Kansas Cradle to Career Listening Tour, a chance to step into communities to hear directly from Kansans about…
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Update – September 2025
This month’s highlights: Top News – The U.S. Department of Education announced over $1.1 billion in redirected funding, with investments for HBCUs, TCUs, charter schools, and civics programs.Missouri Update – Working groups of the School Funding Modernization Task Force began meeting, including one that now features Aligned’s own Torree…
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Weekly Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – School choice remains a top priority for Governor Mike Kehoe’s administration, and this week, Missouri lawmakers made progress on one key component—open enrollment. Missouri Update – Bills related to educator tax deductions, hazing legislation, and open enrollment…
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Weekly Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – Kansas Lawmakers Weigh Property Tax Relief Missouri Update – Early childhood council discusses program updates & strategic initiatives Kansas Update – Education policy proposals emerge in Topeka Additional Highlights – Brian Brush joins Aligned…