Wichita Public Schools

We should we should give some propers where they're due.

And it was still more a messaging platform rather than inviting everyday taxpayers in to collaborate and be partners in building the future of Wichita Public Schools.

For the actual like building of the bond plan itself, because they did the tours, which I thought was really kind of neat.

They did the tours through the school and said, hey, this is what we're working on with.

Gotcha.

Where are we at right now when it comes to how much that the school district uses for property taxes right now in the community? Do we even know where we're at with that?

Well, Wichita Public Schools has by far the lowest mill rate in the county compared to all of our suburban neighbors.

We're about 51 mills, which is the main portion of the tax bill when we get it.

This is a couple things I looked up real quick.

The peak enrollment for Wichita Public Schools was in 1971 at 63,811.

The highest enrollment...

And Wichita Public Schools was in 1971.

Every year since then, it has declined.

The very same people who are pro-choice, who are teachers first, who will wear their blue hair and rainbow flags in their schools and tell your children that they can scissor each other at recess, these same people are pro-abortion, complaining there's not enough kids or enough money for kids.

You're killing one-third of all children in the womb.

that are supposed to be your clients.

You talked about, uh, building two new high schools.

Um, on the bond ballot in 2008, it said, you know, Wichita Public Schools is gonna build a new high school in the southeast part of town and build a new high school in the northeast part of town.

So did we follow through on that? Yes.

But so we built the buildings, but what we didn't do was what we said we were gonna do and start new high schools.

Yeah.

Um, so I-- In twenty twenty-one when we started the first Future Ready Center, I was in the CTE office, the Career Tech Ed office.

Um, and we started a, a vision of this really much more hybrid approach between Wichita Public Schools and Wich- uh, WSU Tech, where, um, instead of, you know...

There's still what we call block programs at WSU Tech, where a student, uh, after lunch goes and becomes essentially a college student the rest of the day.

But Lee Gaines reports it is tough to measure whether it's helping or not.

Kaitlyn Shonefer is the AI specialist for Wichita Public Schools in Kansas.

She says the school system is slowly introducing students to a range of AI tools.

Last year, middle schoolers used the technology to create educational games.