Monthly Archives: March 2014

Here’s our take. The good news. 1. The court did not dismiss the case based on a legal issue called standing as the State had asked. 2. The court did not dismiss the case based on a legal issue called “justiciability” and instead held that the Court can issue decisions on...

Here’s the Court’s press release, which has more English and less legalese: The Supreme Court today issued its unanimous opinion in a dispute over K-12 public education financing. The court declared certain school funding laws fail to provide equity in public education as required by the Kansas Constitution and returned...

We’ll have more to come on this, but here are the Gannon conclusions.  Among them that the legislature does have to comply with the constitutional mandate for funding public education at a proper level, the lower court must apply the Rose standards and look at costs again and the legislature...