The Senate and House will be debating bills designed to comply with the Gannon equity order tomorrow [March 24].
“The state we’re in right now, there is no additional funding available,” Denning said.
Sen. Laura Kelly, a Ways and Means Committee member and a Topeka Democrat, voted against advancing the bill. The budget certainty for school districts in the plan is the good news, she said, “but knowing that you don’t have enough coming is the bad news….”
“‘All we did was play with the formula to free up a bunch of money,’ she said. ‘We call it holding harmless, but I don’t see it that way.'”
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