Even the NY Times is paying attention. “The potential deadlock over education funding comes as Gov. Sam Brownback, a conservative Republican, and his legislative allies have enacted deep tax cuts. Moderate Republicans and Democrats have said that it was a cruel juxtaposition to slash state revenue by hundreds of millions of dollars at a time when education is underfunded by more than $400 million.
Alan L. Rupe, a lawyer for the school districts and students seeking increased funding, criticized the state leaders for passing a tax cut, ‘and then stand here to plead they cannot increase funding to schools.’”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/us/kansas-legislature-threatens-showdown-with-court-over-school-financing.html?_r=0