Tag: education
Supreme Court presses school district plaintiffs on funding
Kansas Supreme Court justices on Thursday pressed the school district plaintiffs on just how much money it would take to constitutionally fund public education.
They...
House agrees to Senate school finance plan amid tense negotiations
After three days of sometimes testy and confrontational negotiations, House lawmakers agreed to accept the Senate's plan for funding public education to satisfy a...
Senate negotiators offer education finance plan; talks break off
A day of back-and-forth negotiations ended climactically Tuesday as Senate negotiators agreed to some education accountability measures if the House accepted their school finance...
Senate starts education talks with House, sticks firm to school financing...
Senate negotiators remained steadfast in support of their school finance proposal as talks started Monday to hammer out a funding plan to satisfy the...
House panel sets aside governor’s school finance plan, advances its own
A House panel quickly shelved Gov. Laura Kelly's school finance plan Thursday, moving its own alternative that faces questions about whether it will comply...
Latest Supreme Court ruling on education could be hard to fund,...
Less than a day after the Kansas Supreme Court ordered the state to put maybe as much $400 million more into schools, leading lawmakers...
UPDATED: Kansas Supreme Court rules state still not adquately funding schools
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Legislature is not adequately funding schools despite putting more than $500 million into education over the...
School funding plaintiffs: New education finance bill unconstitutional
A new law allocating $536 million more to education over five years continues the Legislature's pattern of underfunding Kansas schools, the plaintiffs in the...
Tax deal proving elusive as session winds down
(Will be updated after 8:30 a.m. conference committee meeting)
Kansas lawmakers will return to work Wednesday after meeting into the night Tuesday trying to iron...
Legislature passes fix to education finance bill; constitutional questions persist
Kansas lawmakers finished their work fixing a school finance bill Monday as the Senate passed legislation that prompted more questions about the constitutionality of...
