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From ReRoute the Roadmap. We agree that rural Kansans are entitled to a strong public education, too. Mark writes to us in response to the question, “Has the legislature looked at any consolidation ideas to reduce administrative costs for school systems?”: It’s also helpful to note that those thinly populated areas of the state where consolidation has been accomplished still suffer from an absence of the economies of scale that taxpayers and school children enjoy in Sedgwick and Johnson Counties. They are, however, citizens of Kansas and therefore entitled to “adequate” funding. It is more expensive per pupil...