Alva Review-Courier -

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback proposed Tuesday that the state phase in a $600 million increase in spending on public schools over five years in hopes of meeting a court mandate, without telling legislators how he would pay for it.

The term-limited conservative Republican governor outlined the proposal in his eighth and final State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature. He tied the extra money to goals for raising teacher salaries, increasing the number of school counselors and psychologists and offering high school students courses that earn them college cr...