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Now Governor Brownback can ask potential appellate court judges their views on the court’s role in school funding, appoint those who will rule that only the legislature can determine what suitable funding means under the Kansas Constitution and keep us from knowing who else was passed over. Kansans beware-the bill to amend the Kansas Constitution so that he can do the same thing with the Supreme Court will be back, especially if the Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs in the Gannon case in early January.http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/06/4331566/brownbacks-judicial-power-grab.html...

Steve Rose’s look at what is likely to happen when the Kansas Supreme Court decides the Gannon case should be viewed in the context of the fact that the adequate funding numbers were derived by the legislature’s own studies, not the court, and that Kansas schools are facing very real consequences of underfunding at at time of increasing need. SMSD has had reductions in staff, increases in class size caps, decreased supply budgets, no funding for library books, decreased janitorial services and other cuts. That’s not spin, that’s reality. Blue Valley and Olathe are so far being protected by...

Practical implications seem to be missing from multiple education policy discussions in Topeka. The main insurer for Kansas schools thinks the risks of having armed teachers is too great.  http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/19/4301948/armed-employees-could-cost-kansas.html...