On April 28 the Kansas Legislature will have another try at passing a budget for the coming fiscal year. The lawmakers took their spring break before agreeing on a fiscal 2011 budget because they couldn’t decide how to cope with a looming $400 million deficit. Senate leaders want to raise taxes; the House budget bill slashes state spending still further and passes the buck for school funding to school district property taxpayers.
Taking Kansas back to the days when schools were funded primarily with the property tax would be devastating to southeast Kansas. Allen County and its…
Kansas can afford good schools and quality highways
