“The state Education Department’s top finance official testified Friday that no school district in Kansas gets more operating money under Gov. Sam Brownback’s block grant funding system.
“After mandatory payments to the state’s public employee retirement fund are factored out, every district that qualified for state equalization payments will get less from the block grants than under the previous school finance formula, Deputy Education Commissioner Dale Dennis testified.
“Statewide, ‘the difference is about $53 million (less),’ he said.”
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