At one end of the spectrum, the Legislature boosts school funding by $40 million and everyone gets to go home. On the other, state officials are held in contempt of court.
Kansas may be inching closer to a constitutional crisis that would test allegiances and pit state officials against each other as lawmakers face a looming deadline to recalibrate school funding that has everyone scrambling to figure out what happens next.
The rhetoric is white hot. But the questions are many and the answers few.