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Four JoCo school districts position for legal challenge over special ed funding

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Four Johnson County school districts are banding together with an eye toward bring a legal challenge over the state not fully funding special education in Kansas.

The  four districts - Blue Valley, De Soto, Olathe and Shawnee Mission School District – have signed an agreement  establishing the "Kansas Public School Funding Coalition."

They described it as a "unified and strategic effort to address the Kansas Legislature’s continued failure to adequately fund public education and meet its legal obligation for special education funding."

"For years, school districts across Kansas have worked through the traditional legislative process . . .

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