A broad majority in the House voted Thursday to accept a stop-gap bill developed in response to the latest Kansas Supreme Court decision that found state financing of public school districts in violation of the Kansas Constitution.
Rep. Ron Ryckman Jr., an Olathe Republican and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the approach taken by the Legislature to recast a funding formula should be viewed as compliant with the court’s edict to alter appropriations to provide public school students with reasonable, equitable access to educational ...