Post by Logan on Jun 14, 2016 0:40:36 GMT -6
Judiciary, budget committees to take lead in K-12 special session
A joint meeting of House and Senate judiciary committees Thursday ahead of the Legislature’s special session on education finance will allow lawmakers and the public to dive into strategies to fix a funding flaw and block a court-ordered closure of schools.
Sen. Jeff King, an Independence Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the plan called for no more than two days of testimony and debate about immediate solutions to the Kansas Supreme Court ruling, pointing to a constitutional defect of Kansas’ public school finance law.
The goal is to forward recommendations to the Legislature’s budget committees, he said.
“To me,” King said, “the biggest part of this is we have to address the financial concerns the court had for next year.”
Read more: cjonline.com/news/2016-06-13/judiciary-budget-committees-take-lead-k-12-special-session#
A joint meeting of House and Senate judiciary committees Thursday ahead of the Legislature’s special session on education finance will allow lawmakers and the public to dive into strategies to fix a funding flaw and block a court-ordered closure of schools.
Sen. Jeff King, an Independence Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the plan called for no more than two days of testimony and debate about immediate solutions to the Kansas Supreme Court ruling, pointing to a constitutional defect of Kansas’ public school finance law.
The goal is to forward recommendations to the Legislature’s budget committees, he said.
“To me,” King said, “the biggest part of this is we have to address the financial concerns the court had for next year.”
Read more: cjonline.com/news/2016-06-13/judiciary-budget-committees-take-lead-k-12-special-session#