The Kansas Legislature last week got good news—from some perspectives—that it pumped enough money into two specific funds for public schools to be off the hook from a potentially earth-shaking decision by a three-judge panel considering school finance.
The two funds were state support for capital outlays made by school districts and chipping in equally the state assistance for school districts that have local option budgets. It took about $130 million of new and shuffled funds to accomplish the equalization that the Kansas Supreme Court wanted.