“‘USD259 KPERS payment arrived today @ 7 am. Sent back at 7:01 am. How should we have invested in kids for that 1 min?’ tweeted Lynn Rogers, a school board member who is running for a state Senate seat…
“‘It’s just for appearance sake,’ he said. ‘That’s plain and simple to confuse people and make them think they’re funding more for education – and they’re not. They’re doing what they were legally obligated to do before that.’
“School retirement money used to go straight from the state to KPERS, but that changed in the 2004-2005 budget year, Neuenswander said.
“At the time, lawmakers said they didn’t think they were getting enough credit for the money they were putting into education. Since then, they’ve added other spending lines that weren’t traditionally counted as school funding but are now.”
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