“It is hard to see much evidence that the new bill will deliver the dollars that districts actually will need to educate their growing student enrollments between now and 2017. GOP lawmakers boasted about restoring a $28 million cut to base aid that Brownback ordered last month, but they neglected to mention that their plan cuts $51 million in other current-year funding.
“As the legislation makes its way through committees and to the full chambers of the Legislature, lawmakers and the governor must be certain that it meets, rather than sidesteps, that constitutional mandate. And school district leaders, teachers, parents and other taxpayers need to be part of the debate.”
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