A study released at the beginning of the year from the Kansas Association of School Boards looked at several areas of education and found marked improvement from assessment and ACT scores to high school graduation rates. Ads from the Kansas Policy Institute discount those results, but KASB Associate Director Mark Tallman says the KPI analysis doesn’t include the students who are deemed proficient.

Tallman says the KASB knows that they still need to get better, but there should be recognition for how much improvement there has been.