The House and Senate have passed a bill to attempt to comply with the Gannon equity remedy. We understand that the legislature frankly doesn’t have any additional funds available for education and are glad this plan doesn’t take funding from over 100 districts, but we don’t think shifting funds in this manner accomplishes the goal. We think legislators should be inviting stakeholders to the table and creating a new funding formula so we can get out of our current situation, though we also fear what they might come up with given current revenue limitations.

“‘This basically takes the same money and distributes it in the same way,’ said David Smith, spokesman for the Kansas City, Kan., district, one of the plaintiffs in the suit. If those levels of funding were ruled unconstitutional by the court, these levels will be as well, he said.

“’That’s not hard. That’s basic algebra, which I took in seventh grade,’ Smith said.”

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