“Two Republican lawmakers on Tuesday [March 15] floated the idea of giving the Kansas Department of Education control over school funding. The idea was proposed during a hearing on a bill meant to address the Kansas Supreme Court’s order to fix inequities between school districts.

“’We have a bunch of winners here. Where are they?’ Kleeb asked.
The Wichita school district’s lobbyist, Diane Gjerstad, attended the meeting.

“’This is the first inning in the school finance game and it’s going to be a long nine innings. …We don’t believe this will be the end product,’ Gjerstad said when asked why she didn’t testify.” http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article66153112.html

Update: this bill was superseded by a later bill. We include this post for the dialogue regarding winners and losers and possibly shifting more authority to the Department of Education.