Four school districts suing the state argue that the plan still falls as much as $1.5 billion short of being adequate under the state constitution. The arguments Tuesday were in a lawsuit filed by four school districts in 2010, when this year’s high school graduates were fifth-graders. The court threatened to do just that in 2016 to get lawmakers to increase aid to poor school districts. But Rep. Fred Patton, a Topeka Republican and chairman of a special House committee on school funding, said he would be shocked if the court went that far this time. “You cannot argue that we did not put in a substantial amount of money and school districts won’t benefit,” Patton said.

Source: National Post May 22, 2018 04:07 UTC