To the editor:

No surprise. The Kansas Supreme Court has questions about the “sufficiency” of the Legislature’s anemic plan for funding K-12 education. But what do justices hope the lawyers are going to tell them that isn’t apparent? The Legislature’s plan clearly fails the test of providing suitable and sustainable equal educational opportunity for the students.

The court’s decision to throw this back to the spin the lawyers can put on the blighted package should offend the taxpayer. They have provided more billable hours for the lawyers at our expense. The plan fails and we don’t need to spend another million or so that could go to education. A recent editorial decried the plan for the state Chamber of Commerce to rate judges for fear they would give better ratings to judges who are “business friendly.” We need judges who interpret the law without being “lawyer friendly.”

And now we learn that the Legislature can authorize $405,000 for the defense of the suspect in the BTK serial killings in Wichita.

Bud Gollier,

Ottawa