Syndicated to Kansas newspapers July 10, 2017.
There’s a lot of breath-holding going on among legislators over what might happen a week or so after July 18—that’s the day when the Kansas Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the Legislature did or didn’t adequately finance public education in Kansas.
Sometime, probably in August, maybe September, the court is going to rule on whether the state is constitutionally financing education in Kansas public schools.
The group of school districts that is challenging the state’s relatively new school finance formula maintains that the Legislature just isn’t spending enough money to make sure that all students—and especially those who aren’t performing to grade level averages—do better.