The Kansas constitutional issues, which I’ve been tracking here because of their similarity to Washington’s McCleary case, continue to simmer. It appears that the Kansas Supreme Court is hearing two separate cases, one involving school finance issues directly and the other involving the fallout from the Legislature’s political battle with the Court.
The Wichita Eagle reported last Friday, November 6th that the Supreme Court heard argument in the school finance case. In this case, the Court has determined that the State has not fulfilled its duty to fund education, similar to the McCleary case here in Washington.
In the other case, involving the power of the courts to govern themselves and the effort by the Legislature to limit that power, oral argument has been set for December 10th.
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