Sen. Masterson again shows his true colors on public education funding. Will voters remember when he’s up for election?

“Brownback’s allies contend it’s unfair to portray the trend as a cut because the amounts for fiscal 2016 and 2017 exceed the aid for fiscal 2014. Senate budget committee Chairman Ty Masterson suggested that the governor’s critics are ‘myopically focused’ on the changes from 2015 to 2016.

“‘It’s certainly not the whole truth,’ said Masterson, an Andover Republican.

“But Sen. Laura Kelly, the budget committee’s ranking Democrat, scoffed, ‘It is a cut.’
“‘You’re taking money out of the classroom,’ she said.”

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