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The Prairie Village Post reported NE Johnson County legislator and education advocate responses to the Gannon ruling. “Though it is by no means definitive since it will almost certainly be appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court by the state, yesterday’s ruling from a three-judge panel in Shawnee County calling the state’s current K-12 funding ‘inadequate from any rational perspective’ is sure to cast a long shadow over discussions about how to deal with the coming budget crisis. “Here’s what a number of local legislators and education advocates had to say about the ruling: “Rep. Barbara Bollier, District 21,...

The district court panel has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the Gannon school funding case and determined that Kansas school funding is unconstitutionally low.  The case will be appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court. Here are articles from Kansas reporters. http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article5175489.html http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article5169564.html http://cjonline.com/news/2014-12-30/judges-rule-school-finance-inadequate http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/dec/30/kansas-court-orders-more-state-spending-schools/ http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/369a05c625bf43d7819fbbe0cdf1406f/KS–School-Funding-Kansas...

Several education advocates were named to John Celock’s 14 Most Interesting People in Kansas Politics in 2014, and Game On for Kansas Schools received a nod. “Johnson County Parents Parents in Johnson County are prepared to speak out and make sure they are heard on the issue of education and school funding. They have been outspoken in their districts, in Topeka and on social media pressing their case. They have been quick to defend their turf and to challenge Brownback and conservative Republicans on the school-funding bill this year and on proposed changes to the school funding formula....

Although efforts to rework the school funding formula have failed in the past, we suspect they will be “successful” this year. Why? There simply isn’t enough revenue coming into the state, but legislators know Kansans won’t be happy about cuts to education so they won’t “cut” funding, they’ll just “rework the formula” which will just happen to result in less funding for our schools. We can see the 2016 and 2018 campaign postcards already. “That claim has been the source of considerable dispute, both in the Statehouse and among the general public. Overall, total state funding for K-12...