Date set for Legislature’s special session
TOPEKA ? Kansas House Speaker Doug Mays said today that the Legislature will meet in special session on June 22 to address last week’s state Supreme Court ruling on school finance.
Some GOP lawmakers could be reluctant to follow court orderJustices on Friday said the Legislature’s plan for funding public school districts was inadequate and ordered lawmakers by July 1 to essentially double to $285 million the sum lawmakers had previously proposed for increased state aid to schools.
The state currently provides about $2.7 billion yearly to local districts.
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