The Legislature’s own research department said that in the current fiscal year, schools are being shorted $173 million from covering the 92% of statewide excess costs as the law calls for. SPED services are mandatory, and the federal government and Kansas legislature need to fund it. Underfunding SPED hurts all students.

-Hays school district spent $7 million last year on special education; they had to transfer $2.2 million to cover the state shortfall for special education.

-Golden Plains school district spent $400,000 last year on special education; they had to transfer $177,000 to cover the state shortfall for special education.