Another court panel has said, again, that the state isn’t spending enough money to provide K-12 students in every school district in the state with the education they need to meet the state’s new Rose Standards, which presumably set them up for successful lives.
The decision, which will presumably someday be affirmed or modified by the Kansas Supreme Court, has already set off some predictable, and some unanticipated, response from the Legislature.
The simplest reading of the decision is that Kansas needs to send more money from Topeka to those districts. But, as with nearly every issue with a pricetag—an estimated $548 million boost in funding this year—the details almost overwhelm the problem, if a majority of legislators concur that there is a problem.