Election day is just around the corner and Kansas State Board of Education Incumbent , Denna Horst asks voters to allow her continue to represent the Sixth District.
Horst, who visited Manhattan Wednesday, is a Republican candidate from Salina, and she helped to establish a new vision for education in Kansas during her first term. If elected for a second term, Horst says she’ll strive to complete her goal of moving schools away from “teaching to the test” and start focusing on a more complete education for children in the state.
“We’d been accrediting schools based on their students’ scores on those tests and so it was obvious that we needed to move away from that and start looking at the entire child.”
Horst also wants to address funding for Kansas schools.
“There are other issues that I think we need to certainly be aware of and one of those, of course, is school funding.”
Horst was an educator for 41 years and served as a Kansas Legislator for 16 years.
