New dollars big issue as Kansas educators knock funding plan
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March 24, 2017
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas educators saw plenty of problems Thursday with a new school funding plan being considered by legislators, and a big one is what critics perceive as not enough new dollars.
A special state House committee opened hearings on a bill that would create a new per-student formula for distributing about $4.1 billion a year in aid to the state's 286 local school districts. The new formula would increase the state's annual spending by $75 million.
Republican lawmakers scrapped a per-student formula in 2015 in favor of stable "block grants" for districts. The Kansas Supreme Cou...
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