On March 17, the Senate Ways and Means committee passed a bill that seeks to comply with the Gannon equity decision by redistributing money already allocated. The comments in this committee and House appropriations generally revealed a lack of honest discussion about how the legislature ended up here and the...
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School funding bills addressed in committees
“A Kansas Senate committee gave the go-ahead Thursday [March 17] to a proposed fix of the state’s school equalization formula, but a similar plan in a House committee drew bitter reaction from lawmakers and didn’t advance. “Legislators are trying to beat a June 30 deadline imposed by the state Supreme...
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“But what if that story isn’t just about businesses anymore? What if instead of a closed factory or shuttered store, the story is about a closed public school? What if the consequence of these types of business decisions’ isn’t a grown man having to look for another job or an...
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It’s hard to keep up with the status of the school finance discussions right now. Here’s a helpful update from March 16: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article66479322.html....
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