“The Wichita school district’s 2015-16 budget will be ‘ultra-conservative,’ superintendent John Allison told school board members Monday. Even so, schools could face midyear reductions or cuts to personnel and programs in coming years if state revenue doesn’t meet projections…

“’It’s going to look like there’s a big increase where, in reality, the dollars we have to spend are the same. It’s just how it’s being counted and reported that will be different.’

“Allison and board members again expressed frustration with the state’s recent change to block-grant funding, which essentially freezes districts’ budgets at this year’s levels.

“’The bigger question is … how does that begin to change?’ Allison said. ‘At what point will the citizens in Kansas say, ‘No more. We have reached a point where we are unwilling to accept decisions that continue to erode educational opportunity’?

“’Until that happens – and it happens at the ballot box – we’ll continue to see these (cuts) getting larger and larger.’”

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