Kansas’ school finance system remains unconstitutional, despite this spring’s legislative tweaks, and needs to be fixed by the end of June, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday. The decision could mean adding nearly $40 million to the state’s education budget.
The 47-page ruling in the six-year-old Gannon v. Kansas case was issued late Friday afternoon and doesn’t mince words. It says the state’s latest changes to school finance create “intolerable, and simply unfair, wealth-based disparities” among wealthier and poorer school districts.