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 We would also like to point out that the old formula was repealed a year ago, and more progress should have been made by now.

“But the president of the Kansas Senate said Friday that it’s unrealistic to expect lawmakers to devise a new school funding system in the remaining weeks of the 2016 session, and she thinks the process will take at least another year.

“‘I’ve said all along that a new finance formula takes a lot of collaboration, a lot of communication, and the needs of the districts are very diverse,’ said Sen. Susan Wagle, R-Wichita. ‘And to try and pack a new formula into two months is not a reasonable request from the court.'”

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article59874106.html.