From the Kansas State Supreme Court:
The defendant, the State of Kansas (appellant/cross-appellee), appeals from various holdings by a three-judge district court panel.
The panel's holdings included a determination that the State violated Article 6 when the legislature underfunded K-12 public education between fiscal years 2009 and 2012, as well as a related determination that the legislature failed to consider the actual costs of providing a constitutionally required education before making its funding decisions.
Its holdings also concluded that additional constitutional violations occurred because the legislature either withheld or reduced certain funding to which school districts were statutorily entitled.
http://www.kscourts.org/Cases-and-Opini ... 109335.pdfIn my estimation the Brownback Administration and the Kansas GOP owe billions in back taxes to the Kansas Public Education system.
Any change in public education funding should be approved by the voting taxpayers aka the largest group of public education stakeholders.
Sam Brownback seems to be Dismantling and Defunding Kansas Public Schools
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-va ... 23651.htmlPublic education has for decades and decades been one of the government success stories in reality a best bang for the tax buck.