New revenue estimates alarming

Cuts to education, whether they are called policy changes, efficiencies or reforms are on the horizon. “The new revenue estimates released Monday revealed that Kansas would burn through about $380 million in reserves and still need to cut $280 million to balance its current budget for fiscal year 2015, which ends next June 30.

“The problem continues in 2016 when revenues are projected to run $436 million short of expenditures, the estimates show.”