Recent News

04.23.2008 NCSP Parity in Kansas

A KASP committee worked hard to get a bill before the Kansas legislature this spring, to provide stipends for school psychologists with the NCSP. An identical bill for board-certified teachers passed recently, so this attempts to establish parity for our profession. As of 2/14/08 it had sponsorship by education committee member Barbara Craft (Kansas House Republican District 65), to go up for a vote this session. Click here to see HB2869. Unfortunately, Chairman Aurand did not bring the bill up for a hearing this session. As we'd been advised, the fiscal note for the bill ((approximately
$90,000) is a problem. It had been foreshadowed to us that
there's VERY LITTLE discretionary money for new spending this year, so
legislators are being very selective in the bills that are moved forward if there's a fiscal impact to the state. For 2008, there were higher priority bills; We'll try to get it introduced again at a more opportune time.

Contact Us

While the website is in the months-long process of being linked back together again, if you really need something which seems unavailable, please email webmaster Jim Persinger at jpersing@emporia.edu and I'll get it to you.

Or for membership or other business-related questions, email executive manager Keely Persinger at keelypersinger@yahoo.com

Welcome to our Website

The recent website troubles have killed some of the links at the top. Temporarily, you'll find 2008 conference info posted on this page below.

4.23.08: Website Doldrums Redux -

A few weeks ago, we started getting emails letting us know that people couldn't access the site. It was confusing at first, because the site was intact and working perfectly, on a server in Wichita. The folks there tracked down the issue: there was domain registration information on servers around the world, which direct your web browser when you typed www.kasp.org into the address bar. The information for kasp.org became corrupted and lengthy re-registration process was undertaken to fix it. The address problem kept conference registration from going up recently, it will be fixed ASAP. Related to some of these problems, a lot of links on the site were corrupted: those will take a while to get all fixed.

2.20.08: Website Doldrums -

If you haven't been here since January, the site's radical new look is probably a mystery. The website went down the last week of January and is still not entirely back. It was the worst of scenarios, involving a catastrophe at the company hosting our website. There was some sort of cascading event which took out the server on which kasp.org was hosted, the backup server, and the backup-backup server. Your webmaster returned from the NASP conference to find that all content was gone forever, including the backups. Even the style sheet we previously used is gone and no longer available from Microsoft, which is why I have redesigned the basic look.