[NormsRevenge]

Michele Henry, a Topeka mother of two daughters, ages 7 and 9, said legislators need to provide enough money for schools.

"Other people are not allowed not to do their jobs," said Henry, who is the president of the parent-teacher organization at her daughters' school. "Their job is to fund education programs for our children."

[NormsRevenge]

The high court said that the plan was inadequate and that the increase for the next school year must be $285 million, or 10 percent. The court also said it could order much larger spending increases in the future.

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who needs state legislatures when you have courts that are more than happy to run things.

[bert]

One solution would be to have the judge incarcerated and ransomed for the required funds.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

that the increase for the next school year must be $285 million,

Okay, so that means the legislature needs to bill each judge $40,715,000. If they want it spent, they can pay for it.

[Truth29]

The time is coming when the black robed tyrants need to be stopped. How about defunding the state court until it recognizes the separation of powers. (That is an alternative to simply having the state police drag them out of the court.)

[Publius6961]

This defiance is way overdue.
The precedent, school bussing, set the stage for any kind of judicial power grab.

Having the court decide matters of taxation, funding and amounts, specially in such vague terms as "adequately", is unacceptable .

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"Other people are not allowed not to do their jobs," said Henry, who is the president of the parent-teacher organization at her daughters' school. "Their job is to fund education programs for our children."

I'm sure Henry would be happy to double her tax payments to pay for this. Teachers should be able to make $150,000 a year if they can get away with it. /sarcasm

Seriously, I hope the legislature stands up to the nitwit judge.

[Calusa]

Some Republicans who control the Legislature want to defy the court, arguing it cannot tell them exactly what to spend on anything.

Hang on to your seats. Now we know what were gonna hear about on C-SPAM for the rest of the year.

[zerosix]

Note to Michele, KS lawmakers have funded "Edukation" for years with publik skool enrollment falling in the face of private/home schooling/religious schools, picking up many students and many more parents interested in real educations for their children w/o social engineering; sex promos presented by homosexual groups; and socialists drying up every ounce of taxpayer dollar around - DEAL WITH IT!

[lepton]

Their tough talk has educators and others worried the court will order schools to remain closed until legislators comply.

That would garner widespread support of impeachment in a heartbeat.

[monday]

"They might not reopen in the fall because of a political and legal battle over education funding. "

The best thing that could happen for kids in Kansas. refund property taxes and other funds to parents and let them send their kids to private schools.

[microgood]

Their tough talk has educators and others worried the court will order schools to remain closed until legislators comply.

If the do that, the governor should just order everyone to school anyway. If teachers or administration defy that, fire them.

[thoughtomator]

If the Kansas public schools shut down, the real winners will be the kids and the taxpayers.

[Mister Baredog]

Courts now ordering spending again in Kansas, WTF?

Isn't there a legislature for such considerations?

Beam me up

[familyop]

Kansas is the most socially left State that I've ever been in. Feminism and homo-activism have been rampant there for a long time--even after some Republicans recently started getting elected. Taxes are very high there. And long ago, the socialist politics of eastern Kansas killed agriculture in the western half of the State.

[traviskicks]

it is sickening how this story is written. sobbing about the children and such...

[traviskicks]

FYI, an update...

[The_Reader_David]

Well the obvious fix, since the Kansas Constitution provides appellate juridiction to the Supreme Court 'as provided by law' is to pass a statute making the state budget not a matter of which the Supreme Court has appellate juridiction, retroactive a few years.

Of course we'd need enough folks with the backbone to override Sibelius's veto.

[Born Conservative]

[Stellar Dendrite]

Kathleen Sebelius is a dangerous socialist.

[kittymyrib]

They wouldn't have this problem if there were separation of state and school. What right have the judges to order higher taxes? Too bad that schools now are feeding the children all three meals a day and babysit them all day. Parents may have to feed their own kids...many of them illegals who have no business in our schools in the first place.