Hinson: no certainty schools will open next year

“Now state legislators, grappling with a $30 million deficit in the state budget, must find a way to constitutionally fund schools by the end of June or come July 1, there will be no mechanism to pay for K-12 education in Kansas.

“And the closer schools get to that deadline, the more worried parents, teachers and school administrators become, Southwick said.

“’Normally at this time we are finished with our budget for 2016-2017,’ Hinson said. ‘Right now we don’t know how to budget for ’16, ’17. We have heard so many different variables about what might happen. We don’t know what will happen. And the stories that we are receiving are really all over the board.’”

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