A joint meeting of House and Senate judiciary committees Thursday ahead of the Legislature’s special session on education finance will allow lawmakers and the public to dive into strategies to fix a funding flaw and block a court-ordered closure of schools.
Sen. Jeff King, an Independence Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the plan called for no more than two days of testimony and debate about immediate solutions to the Kansas Supreme Court ruling, pointing to a constitutional defect of Kansas’ public school finance ...