Superintendent Steve Pegram is inviting Rep. Corbet to a school board meeting to discuss the block grant.
“The response from Kansas Representative (Ken) Corbet regarding my statements about the new block grant funding was very well written. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought this was a response from the Kansas Policy Institute…
“In an attempt to get this matter clarified, I would like to formally invite you (Representative Corbet) to the May 13 SFT Board of Education meeting to clarify the issue of block funding and explain how it is good for SFT, how it provides more revenue for the district, and how it doesn’t reduce the district’s operating fund. A couple of board members have gone so far as to say that if this date doesn’t work you need to let them know, and they will meet on a date that fits your schedule.
“Representative Corbet, should you meet with the SFT Board of Education, they would also like to discuss special education funding, the part where the state is by law supposed to pay 92 percent of actual costs, but is only paying 72, which causes school districts to pick up the state’s tab. They would also be discussing the state budget and how the state went from a 7.5 percent carryover (required by law) two years ago to a $600 million deficit.”
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