Press Release
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| Jim Barnett |
Topeka –
Jim
Barnett, former state senator and current candidate for governor, on Monday (March 30, 2018) praised the legislature for adopting a school funding package
that will infuse approximately $525 million into the state school
finance fund.
"I am
particularly excited to see this contentious issue behind us so that
Kansas can move forward to provide for our most needed resource, our
children. I know this legislation resulted only from long hours of
discussion and often consternation by some members of the
legislature," he said.
A longtime
supporter of education, Barnett said he is mindful that the
legislation must still meet the approval of the Supreme Court, which
ordered the funding in a lawsuit that challenged the fairness and
adequacy of the existing school finance formula.
"I
also have been very dubious of a plan by some members of the
legislature, who instead of providing for suitable funding
mandated by the Constitution and Supreme Court, would write the
kids out of the constitution through a hastily conceived referendum,"
Barnett said.
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