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posted by: Ruthie
| December 11, 2013, 04:59 PM
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The Kansas Supreme Court is currently considering a lawsuit by school districts, claiming that the state has denied them funding, promised by a previous ruling. Education Week features an article about this mounting dispute.
A long-running feud over K-12 spending levels in Kansas threatens to reach new levels of enmity, as lawmakers worry they could end up at odds with the state's highest court on the amount of state money public schools are entitled to receive.
The Kansas Supreme Court is currently considering a lawsuit,Gannon v. Kansas, brought by school districts claiming that the state has not met its constitutional obligation to make "suitable provision" of resources to K-12. But even if the districts prevail, their path forward in the face of a state legislature that has expressed open hostility to such a ruling is uncertain.
The case highlights a landscape of legal fights over education funding around the nation that include a convoluted court battle over 2011 cuts in Texas and the Washington state legislature's ongoing struggle to meet the demands of a 2012 ruling by that state's supreme court.
Click here to read the full article on Education Week's site.
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