Senate President Susan Wagle said there is no rush in writing a new school funding formula. We wish they would stop spending so much time on unimportant and harmful education policy and focus on creating a new formula which meets the needs of our students. We would also like to...
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Legislators and governor need to fix school funding
“The governor and conservative lawmakers will bluster, accusing judges of ‘a temper tantrum’ and the like, but they brought this trouble on themselves and the state. “The move to block-grant funding last year saddles school districts with a fixed amount of funding for two years, regardless of developments such as...
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“Everybody is sick of the school-finance wars in Kansas. The Montoy case dragged on for seven years; this Gannon lawsuit is at six years and counting, with the adequacy part of the case still pending. But the court is not the problem. “As it said Thursday: ‘While we do not...
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No comments More legislative responses to the Gannon equity decision
In his response, Sen. Melcher raised the issue of retaliating against the court via retention elections. “‘I think the judges are going to get what’s coming to them in the retention elections,’ Melcher said. ‘I think the public has had enough of their politicizing of the judicial branch and they’re...
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