Critics of Kansas’ new public school funding law are illustrating what they see as its flaws with before-and-after towers of Legos: The blocks change color, but the stack doesn’t grow any larger.
The state Supreme Court plans to hear arguments this week on whether legislators satisfied a mandate to improve funding for poor schools by, in effect, swapping green blocks for yellow ones — making technical changes in how state aid is distributed without affecting most districts’ share or boosting overall state spending.