To hear conservative legislators and candidates talk about it, you’d think the answer is both obvious and easy – cut the budget. But Kansans deserve to know how and where, and with more specificity than the usual talking points about waste and inefficiency and the “proven” power of tax cuts to spur economic growth.
And with revenues having fallen off by design, where will the state get the means to respond to legitimate needs, some of them deferred by the recession? The state universities, for example, just outlined $190 million in funding priorities to the Kansas Board of Regents. And the big question of constitutionality of school funding is still pending at the Kansas Supreme Court.
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