Can’t have those judges enforcing school funding.
Does the legislature have the power of spending delegated to it within the State Constitution?
That post sounded sarcastic. I hope it isn't.
In fact, you cannot have unaccountable judges making arbitrary decisions about how much of the taxpayer's money to spend on education.
That is the job of elected legislators, whose right and responsibility it is to prioritize amongst all the demands for spending, and who can be held accountable if the choose to spend unwisely.
We are having exactly the same kind of issue in Washington State, where I live.
The Supreme Court has mandated the Legislature increase school spending, and has fined the Legislature for not doing it fast enough. The (Republican led) Senate is rightly telling the Court to go to hell.
you really missed the point... the judges were making up NEW spending.
Well technically the legislature was wrong when it weighed districts unequally, according to the state constitution. Of course nothing says they cant lower the per pupil pay out to the lowest mean costs, afaik anyways. Kansas has increased spending on education almost every year since 1992, until 2009 when it was one of the highest in the nation. Browback et al has decreased per pupil by 2000 dollars last I checked and its in the middle of states by how much they spend. IMO Brownback lowered taxes at the wrong time because of the shite sandwich left by Sebelius.
The judges are dictating how the funds be spent.