Kansas Supreme court refuses to reopen school finance case
| Attorney John Robb |
This morning, the Kansas Supreme Court denied a petition for school districts to reopen a 2006 finance case, which argued that Kansas used unconstitutional methods to determined how much money to appropriate from schools as well as how it distributed funds.
The petition came from a coalition of 74 school districts. They argued that Kansas is not complying with an earlier court ruling and that aid to schools was unconstitutionally low.
The case was originally filed by the parents of Salina district student Ryan Montoy. In 2005 and 2006, state legislators changed how funds were drawn and distributed in 293 school districts. The Kansas Supreme Court dismissed the case in 2006 but didn’t rule on changes to the state’s funding formula.
