Topeka ? A multiyear school finance plan probably will be unveiled this week, Republican legislative leaders said Monday.

Republicans and Democrats have been meeting behind closed doors to discuss funding in response to the Kansas Supreme Court order to increase appropriations to schools.

House Speaker Doug Mays, R-Topeka, and House Select Education Committee Chairwoman Kathe Decker, R-Clay Center, said a bill probably would be introduced Wednesday.

“We’re working on putting some ideas together and then we are going to have the committee put a bill together,” Decker said.

Mays added, “We want to do something that is fair, of course, but we’d like to see this case settled at some point.”

Neither would reveal details of what is being discussed.

But through various statements of state officials, it appears legislative leaders and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius have agreed to a three-year funding plan, but short of the $400 million to $470 million infusion next year that was recommended by an education cost study conducted by the Legislature’s audit agency.

Falling short of the $400 million appropriation probably would prompt the plaintiff school districts to seek court intervention.

Last year, the Kansas Supreme Court found the school finance system unconstitutional because it shortchanged all students, but especially those districts with high percentages of low-income students. The court accepted a $290 million increase for schools as a down payment pending what the cost study showed.