Kansas violating state constitution in school funding, court says

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

BY CAREY GILLAM
Fri Mar 7, 2014 12:11pm EST

(Reuters) - Kansas is violating the state constitution in its funding of public schools, a duty that is mandatory and not to be left to the whims of state legislators, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled on Friday.

But while the court upheld part of a lower court finding in favor of a group of public school districts claiming the state should provide more money for education, the court also reversed part of that lower court ruling, and remanded some issues back for further analysis by a district court panel.

The lower court ruling, issued in January 2013, found Kansas was short-changing its students, and rejected as illogical a state argument that it could not afford increases for school funding at the same time that the state was cutting taxes.

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and Republican lawmakers have argued that school funding levels should not be determined by courts but by legislators.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/07/us-usa-education-kansas-idUSBREA261AH20140307

[Vincardog]

1. Their decision on when the courts can influence policy is mighty convenient. Citizen United OK

Roe V wade Bad. Corporations are people Good, You have to pay for public schools BAD.

We have to get the ideology out of our courts.

[sybylla]

2. Hopefully this is and remains a shot across the bow.

States like mine, and apparently Kansas, that have in their state constitutions a right to a free public education better stop fucking with their public education systems.

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