(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Oct. 21, 2013)
It’s going to be weeks, maybe months, before the Kansas Supreme Court rules on the Gannon v. Kansas lawsuit—the one appealed to the Supremes because a three-judge panel decided that Kansas should spend at least $440 million on K-12 school finance.
And, remember that this case came about because the Legislature previously promised to spend more money on K-12, but, with the recession and then election of Gov. Sam Brownback who preferred cutting individual income taxes rather than spending more money on schools, it just didn’t happen.
And…don’t forget that appropriation of money is—so far under the Kansas Constitution—the responsibility of the Kansas Legislature and nobody else.