Well done on K-12 trust fund

After seven years of legislative resistance to K-12 spending increases including a bitter legal fight, the first act of the 2007 Legislature Tuesday was a joy to behold — Senate passage, on a rare 37-1 vote, of a bill to earmark $122.7 million for the third year of 2006’s landmark $541 million school funding plan. The House plans a similar measure. Even the Senate’s name for the "lockbox," the Keeping the Education Promise Trust Fund, sends a welcome message that Kansas lawmakers finally get it: Kansans want good schools, which means well-funded schools. As Senate Ways and Means Chairman Dwayne Umbarger, R-Thayer, put it: "The thought of this trust fund is to live up to the promises and commitments we have made." Well done.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

2 Comments

  1. Jim G.
    Posted January 11, 2007 at 9:01 am | Permalink

    Well Done. Now, Kansas will get some national press for something other than our wingnuts.

  2. mrcontroversy
    Posted January 11, 2007 at 12:09 pm | Permalink

    Kudos for all.Now…if we can just get Mr. Neufeld to see the light on deferred maintenance, this could go down as most productive session of the Legislature in my soon to be 50 years.