The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the state’s newest education funding plan is constitutional.
The plan, which was approved in April, increased K-12 education funding by roughly $90 million.
The years-long saga began when four school districts sued Kansas in 2010. Before Friday, the state Supreme Court had issued six rulings directing lawmakers to increase the state’s spending in a little more than five years, so that aid to public schools now tops $4 billion a year. The court said in an order last year that a 2018 law promising additional funding increases into the future wasn’t sufficient because it hadn’t accounted for inflation.
(Read more: LJ World)
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