Kansas governor signs funding bill to keep schools open

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback said on Thursday he signed a bill enacting a new school funding formula to replace one found to be unconstitutional by the state supreme court, which set a June deadline for legislative action.

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled in February that the funding system approved in 2015 by the Republican-controlled legislature was inequitable, falling $54 million short in funding for primary and secondary students in poor districts. Justices also warned that schools would be ordered to close if the legislature failed to take action by June 30.

"This bill is the result of a delicate legislative compromise – one that I respectfully endorse and that the court should review with appropriate deference,” the Republican governor said in a statement.

But Alan Rupe, an attorney representing four public school districts that sued the state, said the new law does not remedy the inequity problem and that he will ask the supreme court to review the law.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kansas-education-idUSKCN0X42AJ

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World | Thu Apr 7, 2016 12:51pm EDT

[Wellstone ruled]

1. The New Name for this type of Educational funding

should be called the David and Charles Koch Public Education Funding Rule. All those folks in Kansas are getting what you wished for. Or,the John Birch Society,how to maintain Public Education on the Cheap.

[0rganism]

6. how about we further honor dearly departed justice Antonin Scalia with this kind of legislation?

Antonin
Scalia
School
Funding
for
Complete
Kansas
Educational
Reform


wow, that's easier than i thought it would be

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Ouch!!!

[Snarkoleptic]

2. "This bill is the result of a delicate legislative compromise"

This statement sounds to me like he's giving himself extra credit for doing the bare minimum to half-fix a problem that he created.
WTF?

[Ferd Berfel]

3. Damn White of 'em.

[happyslug]

4. That is a term you do not hear much today...

The last time I read it was a 1919 report on the head of the Union that had gone in Strike in Homestead in 1892. As President of the Union, he was black listed and never worked in the Steel Mills again. In 1919 a reporter found him working in an Iron Mine in Mexico. The reporter brought this up to Carnegie a few weeks later and Carnegie told the reporter he would give the man a pension. Upon hearing of the offer, the ex union President said "That was mighty white of him" and walked back into the mine to work with his Mexican and African fellow miners.

Very old term, rarely hear or read today.

[Ferd Berfel]

5. Thanks for the history

didn't know any of that.

didn't know it went that far back