Future of Funding
By: Jeremiah Cook
Updated: January 17, 2013
GALENA -- Galena schools superintendent Brian Smith says the governor's message carried good and bad news for education. Governor Brownback says he's not expecting any more budget cuts, but he also doesn't see more funding in the near future. Some legislators are calling for the state supreme court to be stripped of its power to rule on education funding, a move smith finds troubling.
"It's almost like if we don't like the response we get, we just eliminate it, we change it, and that's not what the United States of America was based on, it's not what the Kansas constitution was based on."
Any action taken by the legislature to remove the supreme court's power to rule on state funding would require a change to the state constitution, which would have to be approved by Kansas voters.
"It's almost like if we don't like the response we get, we just eliminate it, we change it, and that's not what the United States of America was based on, it's not what the Kansas constitution was based on."
Any action taken by the legislature to remove the supreme court's power to rule on state funding would require a change to the state constitution, which would have to be approved by Kansas voters.
