TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Education Department will continue distributing millions in bus funding despite a recent audit that says the payments are not allowed under current state law.

The state Board of Education announced it will keep paying for school districts' bus operations under the same formula it's been using until instructed otherwise. A January independent audit of how transportation aid to districts had been distributed said the formula is based on a law repealed decades ago, the Lawrence Journal-World reported .

The board held a meeting Jan. 26 in response to a letter from Re...