We’ll have more to come on this, but here are the Gannon conclusions. Among them that the legislature does have to comply with the constitutional mandate for funding public education at a proper level, the lower court must apply the Rose standards and look at costs again and the legislature must address equalization. CONCLUSION In conclusion, the holdings of the hardworking panel are affirmed in part and reversed in part. We affirm the panel’s dismissal of all of the individual plaintiffs’ claims and the plaintiff school districts’ equal protection and due process claims for lack of standing. We...
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Take a poll at wibw.com on whether the Supreme Court should order increased funding
From our friends at Kansas Families for Education: “There is a poll at the end of the article. DO YOU THINK THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD ORDER INCREASED FUNDING? Light it up folks!” Kansas Supreme Court To Issue School Finance Ruling Friday www.wibw.com A long-awaited ruling from the Kansas Supreme Court on whether lawmakers are allocating enough money to K-12 schools will be released Friday....
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We are hearing misleading statements about Kansas having the 4th highest education funding in the country, but that is if you only look at state funding. In the early 90s Kansas shifted its funding so that more came from the state level and less from the local level....
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Derby parents are getting in the game! Parent advocacy group forms to support education www.derbyinformer.com A group of Derby parents have formed a parent advocacy group to support education for Derby children....
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