On Monday, legislators will be back in Topeka with challenges awaiting.
Of first order will be a school finance plan to replace block-grant funding, which was declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court justices. That’s a must ahead of constructing a budget for the next two fiscal years, 2018 and 2019.
A modicum of good news surfaced last Thursday when economists and other financial wizards met in secret to decide the economy had improved enough to lower the projected revenue shortfall for the next two years.
For several months it has been pegged at $1.1 billion. Now,…
