“A truce in the education wars isn’t likely any time soon. Kansas is still cash-strapped, a number of lawmakers are innately hostile toward public education, and legal arguments in the long-running school funding case are scheduled for November.

“But Brownback does his state no service by picking fights with school districts, as he did when he accused the Garden City School District of a big spending increase that hadn’t occurred.

“In fact, the governor’s office frequently puts out incorrect and misleading information regarding schools and funding, stoking the tensions.

“It would help if Brownback would acknowledge that schools face growing expenses for health care for employees and technology needs instead of relentlessly demanding ‘efficiencies’ from districts that have operated on lean budgets for years.

“Kansas schools give the state much to be proud of. The governor should be telling their story, not knocking them down.”

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