Post by Logan on Mar 29, 2016 0:21:21 GMT -6
House and Senate Democrats have lodged a formal protest against the school finance bill passed last week, a move that could draw the attention of the Supreme Court, which will likely review the legislation.
By invoking their right to have a written protest placed into both chambers’ official journals, the Democrats are inserting their objections into the records that the court will look to as it determines whether the legislation passes constitutional muster.
House Bill 2655 seeks to address a February Supreme Court ruling striking down the state’s school finance formula as unconstitutionally inequitable between rich and poor districts. The bill applies an old formula used to determine capital outlay state aid to local option budget state aid and adds hold harmless funding for districts that would lose cash under the change.
The bill purports to do this with little additional state spending. In their protest, Democrats assail the “artifice” of the hold harmless provision they say benefits wealthier districts at the expense of poorer districts.
Read more: cjonline.com/news/2016-03-28/kansas-democrats-file-formal-protest-school-finance-bill
By invoking their right to have a written protest placed into both chambers’ official journals, the Democrats are inserting their objections into the records that the court will look to as it determines whether the legislation passes constitutional muster.
House Bill 2655 seeks to address a February Supreme Court ruling striking down the state’s school finance formula as unconstitutionally inequitable between rich and poor districts. The bill applies an old formula used to determine capital outlay state aid to local option budget state aid and adds hold harmless funding for districts that would lose cash under the change.
The bill purports to do this with little additional state spending. In their protest, Democrats assail the “artifice” of the hold harmless provision they say benefits wealthier districts at the expense of poorer districts.
Read more: cjonline.com/news/2016-03-28/kansas-democrats-file-formal-protest-school-finance-bill