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If the school-finance trial in Topeka has been like a flashback to the Montoy case nearly a decade ago, the testimony has made it hard to imagine how the outcome could be any different.
TOPEKA — Two days of talks aimed at settling a lawsuit that challenges Kansas’ school finance system were unsuccessful, attorneys for both sides said in a status report filed Wednesday with the state Supreme Court.
Kansas school districts are concerned not only about the money they need to educate students, but also about how well students are being prepared for their futures, a top state education official testified Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging how...
So the state of Kansas is a school-finance scofflaw – again. Friday’s ruling was no big surprise, given how per-pupil state aid has been cut in recent years. But it will make an already challenging legislative session more so, as it ...
TOPEKA – Inadequate state funding for school districts could lead to an inadequate education for an entire generation of Kansas kids, Alan Rupe, a Wichita lawyer hired by school districts, told a panel of three Shawnee County district judg...
With support for the governor’s school finance plan slowly fading, the Kansas Senate is poised to move ahead with another plan to inject more money into education while letting school districts raise a little more money on their own.
TOPEKA More than $500 million in education cuts have left Kansas public schools so underfunded that the state no longer meets its obligations to students and public school districts under the state constitution, a lawyer said Monday.
Amendment vote The Senate approved a constitutional amendment that would specify that the Legislature alone would determine education spending. It is a dangerous proposition, because it removes an important check and balance of American d...
TOPEKA — The principal of one of Wichita’s poorest schools gave judges in the state school finance trial a ground-level lesson Tuesday in how cutbacks have hurt her effort to teach a difficult-to-teach population.
TOPEKA — The House this morning shot down a resolution that could have put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot to see if voters want to tell the Kansas Supreme Court it can’t direct the legislature how much to spend on ...