We posted a response to an email the governor’s office sent last week attacking critics of school funding in Kansas. Schools for Fair Funding also responded to the email, and a second email from the governor’s office followed.
“In the most recent message, Melika Willoughby, Brownback’s deputy director of communications, criticizes the media and attorneys for Schools for Fair Funding, the group representing school districts suing the state for more education funding. She calls their criticism ‘flimsy” and “easily refuted.’…
“She singled out John Robb, an attorney for Schools for Fair Funding who has been vocal on the issue…
“’If this is so frivolous, as they claim, how come the state keeps losing?’ Robb said. The court action currently pending is the state’s appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court after a three-judge panel found that school funding was unconstitutionally insufficient in June.
“’They are 0-9 when it comes to the court actions in the last dozen years and yet somehow that’s my fault,’ Robb said. ‘If a coach goes 0-9, he gets fired.'”
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/prairie-politics/article34750578.html