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“At Monday’s board meeting, Doll said he wanted to make it clear the district is also considering cuts, not just additional property taxes. He said the district’s finance advisory committee was in the process of identifying and recommending ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars in cuts’ to the district’s budget. “A new block grant system of funding, signed into law in March by Gov. Sam Brownback, has been estimated to result in a $1.6 million hit to the Lawrence district. That figure is not final, though, with the Legislature still working on the state budget.” Read more here: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/apr/27/doll-response-state-budget-cuts-will-also-include-/  ...

We are painfully familiar with the Kansas Policy Institute, their deceptive use of data, their coziness with many legislators who receive their data unquestioningly, and their insistence that they be treated as education funding and policy experts though their main staffers have no education experience and are paid by a Koch-backed organization to lobby for a low-tax, free-market ideology. We hope WSU really didn’t postpone the forum on the block grant just because KPI complained. The comments following this article are worth a read for those of you unfamiliar with them. Read them here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article19838694.html We note that the...