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Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Gov. Sam Brownback are asking the state Supreme Court to stay a lower court's ruling on school finance and send the case to mediation.
The documents were filed Thursday in Topeka in response to a Jan. 11 ruling from a three-judge panel in Shawnee County District Court that the state's system for funding K-12 schools was unconstitutional.
Brownback said in a statement that it is the Legislature's duty to set funding for schools but lawmakers owe it to taxpayers, parents, teachers and students to discuss a way to solve the dispute.
A group of school districts and parents filed the lawsuit in 2010 alleging that the state was out of compliance with a 2005 Supreme Court order. - See more at: http://www.kwch.com/news/kwch-news-jlr-state-ask-courts-for-mediation-in-school-finance-case-20130207,0,2721944.story#sthash.ob4FPRx4.dpuf
The documents were filed Thursday in Topeka in response to a Jan. 11 ruling from a three-judge panel in Shawnee County District Court that the state's system for funding K-12 schools was unconstitutional.
Brownback said in a statement that it is the Legislature's duty to set funding for schools but lawmakers owe it to taxpayers, parents, teachers and students to discuss a way to solve the dispute.
A group of school districts and parents filed the lawsuit in 2010 alleging that the state was out of compliance with a 2005 Supreme Court order. - See more at: http://www.kwch.com/news/kwch-news-jlr-state-ask-courts-for-mediation-in-school-finance-case-20130207,0,2721944.story#sthash.ob4FPRx4.dpuf
The Kansas Surpeme Court has ordered a mediator oversee a challenge to the state's school finance laws.
The ruling comes after Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Gov. Sam Brownback asked the court to send the case to mediation. The motion was filed in January.
A group of school districts and parents filed the lawsuit in 2010 alleging that the state was out of compliance with a 2005 Supreme Court order. A lower court ruled the state's system for funding K-12 schools was unconstitutional.
Both sides have a week to agree to a mediator. The court will appoint a mediator if neither can agree. A conference is scheduled for Monday, March 11.