The Kansas K-12 Student Performance and Efficiency Commission will continue meeting next month.
Their goal is to wrap up recommendations for cutting costs and improving student outcomes.
As Stephen Koranda reports, the group considered several bills they could recommend to lawmakers Monday, but most of them were either rejected or sent back for more work.
Part of the concern is that several of the proposed bills created new study groups and didn’t actually recommend policy changes for Kansas.
The group's chair, Sam Williams, says they should send a strong message to lawmakers saying more studies are not the answer.
“And that’s the challenge, ladies and gentlemen, things cannot stay the way they are. Because it’s not working,” says Williams.
Former state Senator Janis Lee drew a different conclusion after hearing from school administrators.
“They were doing the very best they could with the limited resources they had. Our students still do well,” says Lee.
The commission will recommend a bill creating a new group to study education standards in Kansas.
