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Rep. Ryckman, Jr. doesn’t seem to think the funding our school districts seek is necessary. “Rep. Ron Ryckman Jr., head of the House’s budget panel, said Kansans should ask questions of their local school boards to understand whether tax increases are justified. “’I think that’s where a lot of the scrutiny needs to come — at the local level and how the school boards are spending the money,’ said Ryckman, R-Olathe. “We can’t control that. We allocate money to a school board, and they decide how much goes to administration, how much goes to the teacher, how much...

“’If we determine that SB 7 (senate bill 7, the block grant legislation) really doesn’t do anything more than carry forward the constitutional infirmaries that were already found, are you saying that we should allow an unconstitutional statue to continue for a couple of years to let people work on it?’ Justice Dan Biles asked the attorney for the state… “Several justices questioned whether the state, has indeed, tried to fix the constitutional issues. Justice Eric Rosen suggested the state essentially says what the court wants to hear and then doesn’t deliver on the promises… Read more/listen here: http://kcur.org/post/block-grants-are-front-and-center-kansas-supreme-court-school-funding-hearing#stream/0...