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During the seventh week of the 2025 legislative session, numerous education-related bills had hearings in either the House or Senate education committees or were moved to other non-education committees to keep them alive.  

Bill Tracker 

The following bills have been passed out of their chamber of origin: 

Sub for HB 2007: Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025, and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for KSDE and various state agencies. 

• Passed as amended in the House 83-36. It was received and introduced in the Senate, then referred to the Senate Committee on Ways and Means. 

Liz Anstine believes a child’s passions for what they may want to pursue later as a career should be fostered by Career and Technical Education (CTE) principles all along the continuum of a student’s education. 

“Maybe in third grade, you wanted to be a firefighter, maybe in fourth grade you wanted to paint nails, maybe in fifth grade, all of a sudden, you're interested in feeding the homeless because you did that as a project,” said Anstine, the 2025 Kansas Teacher of the Year. “So now we want to help drive that (passion) for them and help them make sure that they're keeping that purposeful curiosity. I'm so big on that because it's going to make their story bigger because they've kind of learned about all of these things along the way.” 

School districts and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) are annually required to electronically file their CPA audit report and/or single audit report with the Kansas Department of Administration’s Municipal Services.    

What is a single audit? 

A single audit is an audit of a non-federal entity’s financial statements and federal award expenditures, conducted by an independent audit firm, to ensure federal funds are used in compliance with relevant laws and regulations. The current audit threshold for single audits is expending $750,000 or more in federal funds in a fiscal year. (See information below about the change in expenditure threshold). 

The Kansas State Department of Education is seeking applications for McKinney-Vento mini grants from Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) to address the needs of students in accordance with the McKinney-Vento Act.  

The application is due Friday, Feb. 28.