Kansas Democratic lawmakers come up with funding plan

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The clock continues to tick for lawmakers to meet a Kansas Supreme Court mandate to equitably fund schools in the state.

Friday, Democrats rolled out their school finance plan that includes going back to the previous school finance formula in order to equalize the local option budget.

Democrats want to appropriate a little more than $39 million from several revenue sources to make that happen.  Democratic leaders say that includes freezing the virtual school funding for full-time students at the 2014-2015 funding level.

“We have very few options, we have very few alternatives, but for this list, this is the last straw so to speak for what’s available to us,” said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Democrat.

However, lawmakers on the other side of the aisle say they know some of the policy items on the list won’t pass. For the full article click here 

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