The chairman of the House budget committee Friday night called for a special session of the Legislature to answer the Kansas Supreme Court's call to correct a constitutional defect in state funding of public schools.
Rep. Ron Ryckman, an Olathe Republican, sent a letter to House colleagues questioning political intent of the state's highest court and asserting the immediate task was to satisfy the justices' order to make certain K-12 public schools opened on time in August.
