Read Jim Denning's Senate Update and Share!

Sen. Jim Denning says Kansas public schools will be open on July 1, and I believe him.

If you haven't read his message to his constituents, do it now. All of the pesky facts are laid bare. 

• Kansas spends $6 billion on public schools annually.
• That comes to about $3,750 per TAXPAYER. So, for my small household, that's $7,500 per year. And in my mind, that's money spent to indoctrinate kids into beliefs directly opposed to my personal values, but that's another story.
• The Court ruled that $5.9 million was distributed inequitably.
• The block grants the Court didn't cut any school funding. The chart below shows how Johnson County schools fared.

• The Court's ruling demands $40 million. Kansas doesn't have the money to make that payment.
• The other option is to reduce funding to 4 Johnson County schools--Blue Valley, Shawnee Mission, Olathe, and De Soto-- in order to "equalize" funding to other schools.
• The method the Supreme Court has chosen to allocate money to equitability would not go to classrooms. Instead, that $40 million Supreme Court ransom money would be used to reduce the amount of local taxes provided to some schools in other parts of the state.

Again, I say to the Johnson County morons demanding that legislators pay this ransom, you are making these demands at the detriment to your own children, classrooms, and schools.