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Hinson: no certainty schools will open next year

“Now state legislators, grappling with a $30 million deficit in the state budget, must find a way to constitutionally fund schools by the end of June or come July 1, there will be no mechanism to pay for K-12 education in Kansas. “And the closer schools get to that deadline, the more worried parents, teachers and school administrators become, Southwick said. “’Normally at this time we are finished with our budget for 2016-2017,’ Hinson said. ‘Right now we don’t know how to budget for ’16, ’17. We have heard so many different variables about what might happen. We...
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Life of the Law covers intersection of Kansas courts and school funding

Good coverage of the current school funding situation and its intersection with attacks on the courts. “Kansas state legislators are locked in a balance-of-power fight with justices on the Kansas Supreme Court over how much of the state’s diminishing tax revenue to spend on educating children. “Life of the Law’s award-winning reporter Ashley Cleek reports on the fight from the classroom to courthouse. Throughout the state, teachers and school administrators are struggling with deep budget cuts, while in Topeka the funding fight has turned into a heated debate over the balance of power between the three branches of...
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Game On to walk “because our kids are worth it”

“Started by Merriam mom Heather Ousley four years ago, the walk has grown into one of the group’s largest displays of support for better school funding. ‘We walk because our kids are worth it — all our kids,’ said Heather in a release announcing this year’s dates. ‘And we refuse to let them down.’” Read more here: http://pvpost.com/2016/03/07/game-on-for-kansas-schools-will-make-fourth-trek-to-topeka-starting-friday-48113  ...
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