TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas school administrators are split over a new education funding plan designed to meet a recent court order on aid to poor school districts without a big spending increase.
The educators testified Wednesday during separate House and Senate budget committee hearings.
Superintendents in two Johnson County districts supported the plan. Administrators from Wichita and Kansas City, Kansas, said the state needs to boost its overall spending.
The plan redistributes $83 million of the state’s $4 billion-plus a year in aid to its 286 school districts. It’s a response to a Kansas Supreme Court ruling last month that the state has shorted poor districts on their aid.
The plan ensures that no district loses aid, even though total state funding would rise by no more than a few million dollars.