Originally shared by Marla Caldwell
This is a preview of the results we can expect to see from cuts to federal education funding.
The court ordered lawmakers to devise a plan that would meet constitutional standards by the end of June and mandated a new formula to increase government spending on the state's public education system. The demand for extra education funding couldn't come at a worse time for Brownback, as the governor and Republican-held state legislature are caught in a stalemate on whether Kansas should repeal Brownback's landmark income-tax cuts in order to solve shortfalls that have plagued the state budget in recent years.
"We conclude the state's public financing system, through its structure and implementation, is not reasonably calculated to have all Kansas public education students meet or exceed the minimum constitutional standards of adequacy," the court wrote in an unsigned, unanimous opinion. By underfunding education, the judges said, the state system failed in one-fourth of all its public schools to appropriately educate students in basic reading and math skills and shortchanged half of the state's black students and one-third of its Hispanic students.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/kansas-supreme-court-tells-lawmakers-adequately-fund-public-schools
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So what did kansans do. Elect the dufus again. They deserve all they can get. Just like we are watching at national level.
ReplyDeleteBy continuing their underfunding campaign and creating students that will graduate with less and less education, republicans are giving themselves a greater likelihood of being elected. Less educated voters have statistically been shown as more likely to vote Republican.
ReplyDeleteThere is no amount of empirical data that they will accept as proof that tinkle-down economics is a failure.
ReplyDeleteYou can always tell a Republican, but you can't tell him much!
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