Well, it’s fast-and-furious at the Statehouse, with financing of public schools mesmerizing most of the legislators and hangers-on who either have an interest in public schools or are wondering what happens to the issues they care about while the school issue boils.
The school issue? How does the state distribute the roughly $3 billion a year for the next two years that Gov. Sam Brownback proposes to spend (or more, apparently, if a court demands it) to help finance schools? Is that enough money to finance the public schools “adequately” as the Kansas Constitution calls for?
That’s the big fight, but there’s another one waiting to enter the ring: Taxes.