Tag: Kansas Supreme Court
Voters Want School Accountability, Kansas Policy Institute Poll Reveals
Kansas voters want schools to be held accountable for educational outcomes, a new poll reveals. In the poll, commissioned by…
Senator Announces Plan to Push for Changes to KS Constitution
State Sen. Dennis Pyle, a Hiawatha Republican, will introduce a Constitutional amendment to prevent the Kansas Supreme Court from closing schools. The…
New Poll: Voters Prefer Constitutional Amendment to Resolve School Funding
An overwhelming majority of Kansas voters think Kansas lawmakers should consider a constitutional amendment to end the school funding wars,…
Kansas Supreme Court Says Rape Victim Has No Claim on Truth, Overturns Rapist’s Conviction
On Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court Friday threw out the 2013 Shawnee County kidnapping conviction of an immigrant from Monaco…
KS State Aid Per Pupil Soars to Record High
State aid to Kansas public schools topped $4 billion last school year, a record that’s likely to be smashed this…
KS Officials Estimate Rosier Budget Picture
The Kansas Consensus Revenue Estimating Group projects the state will bring in about $220 million more than previously anticipated. The…
Legislative Leaders Name Members of Interim School Finance Committee
Eleven lawmakers will be tasked with making school finance recommendations to the Kansas Legislature. The interim committee will meet three…
Ethics-Challenged Chief Justice Lectures Troops on Ethics
The Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice, Lawton Nuss, lectured about 35 military legal specialists on ethics via video conference. The…
Special Interim Committee Will Examine School Finance
The Legislative Coordinating Council agreed to convene a special study committee to examine the most recent Kansas Supreme Court ruling.…
School Districts Sitting on Record Amounts of Cash Reserves
Kansas school districts are sitting on record reserves. According to the Kansas State Department of Education, public schools are sitting…
Dem Leaders Request Interim Committee on School Finance
Legislative leadership will consider whether to create an interim committee on school finance in light of the Kansas Supreme Court’s…
Can the State Supreme Court Close Kansas Schools?
The state Supreme Court didn’t explicitly threaten to close Kansas schools in its latest opinion that found public school financing…
Supreme Court Rejects School Funding Model It Once Used
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional lawmakers’ most recent attempt at a school financing formula, in part, because the formula…
KS Supreme Court Rules New School Funding Inadequate, Inequitable
Lawmakers have until April 30 to craft a new school financing formula. The Kansas Supreme Court ruled legislators’ latest school…
SFFF Lawyers Clean Up with $7M from Schools
School districts funneled more than $7 million in taxpayer funding to attorneys who sued the state for additional taxpayer money.…
Shocker: Kansas Supreme Court Licenses Identity Theft–But Only By Illegal Aliens
Friday, in a stunning decision, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled in essence that the State of Kansas cannot prosecute illegal…
Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of School Funding Formula
Kansas Supreme Court Justices peppered attorneys for the state of Kansas on SB 19, a new finance formula that adds…
Schools Demand More Funding in KS Supreme Court Brief
Attorneys who sued the state for additional school funding filed a brief saying a newly-adopted funding formula falls short of adequacy.…
Kansas Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments on School Finance
Schools aren’t likely to be disrupted, but lawmakers may be on the hook for a special session sometime late this…
Brownback Signs School Finance Bill
Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law today a school financing bill. The bill, which largely mirrors a 1992 financing formula,…
Newton Kansan Warns Schools May Close
The Newton Kansan warns readers schools will close unless lawmakers pony up more than $750 million in less than five…
SMSD Super Offers School Finance Suggestions
Shawnee Mission School District Superintendent Jim Hinson sees the recent Kansas Supreme Court decision and the end of block grant…
Bipartisan Pair Sponsors Bill to Limit Judicial Nomination Transparency
A bipartisan pair of legislators is sponsoring a bill to rollback changes to judicial nominations adopted last year. Sponsored by Democratic…