“Visibly frustrated Kansas Supreme Court justices hammered attorneys for the state Friday over what legislators knew – or should have known – when they scrapped the longstanding school finance formula in favor of Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to fund schools using block grants…

 

 

 

“’Simply, this needs to be fixed,’ Rupe told the justices. ‘I’ve been in front of you eight times, and there is a pattern here.’

“Several justices expressed frustration that state lawyers had told them the Legislature would provide full funding of the formula and then backed away from that.

“They pointed out that the current proceedings wouldn’t be happening if the state had provided full funding.

“Justice Lee Johnson said the 2014 order said flat out that the state would be in compliance with its constitutional duty to fund schools if it fully funded the formula.

“’I don’t know how we could have been any more clear than that,’ he said.

Read more here and see embedded video of Plaintiffs’ Attorney Alan Rupe and Representative Melissa Rooker: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article43448703.html#storylink=cpy