Let us be blunt. This governor and our legislative leadership have no intention of complying with any court order to increase school funding. The proposal to change the formula is a ploy to avoid the court’s decision. It will take time to figure out how funding is being reduced and re-litigate it. In the meantime, we will see efforts to change judicial selection and lower the retirement age of judges (a bill has already been introduced) so that the courts can be stacked with those passing a litmus test on school funding. As the years go by, those of us whose children’s early elementary years occurred during the recession and experienced those cuts will watch our children enter or graduate from high school with insufficient support from our state, despite multiple court orders to rectify the situation. We’ll also see legislation to divert more funding to charters and private schools. And most of our friends have no idea how this is all lining up. Game on, Kansas.