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KSDE staff walks committee through 14 years of Gannon litigation and where school finance stands today
Summary
Legislative staff and KSDE walked the Committee on K‑12 Education Budget through the history of the Gannon school‑finance litigation, the legislature’s phased funding response and the Supreme Court’s eventual dismissal, and reminded members of the statute and timeline the committee will need to address before the formula sunsets in 2027.
Nick Myers, the Legislature’s revisor who briefed the committee, traced the Gannon litigation from its 2010 start through multiple Supreme Court rulings and the legislature’s multi‑year funding response.
Myers opened by citing the constitutional basis for the suits: “Article 6, section 6(b) requires suitable provision for finance, and it requires the legislature to provide suitable provision for finance,” he told the Committee on K‑12 Education Budget.
The timeline matters because the court repeatedly reviewed whether the state’s school‑finance structure and implementation were reasonably calculated to meet required student outcomes. Myers summarized the court’s sequence: initial equal‑protection and adequacy litigation, the court’s articulation of adequacy tests,…
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