Debates over K-12 funding models have risen in most states in recent years.
Last year, Washington’s state Supreme Court ended a decade-long case that brought into question the implementation of a new school funding plan after lower courts found in 2012 that the state had violated its constitution by underfunding K-12 schools.
Even more recently, Kansas’ Supreme Court decided last month that the state is finally spending an adequate amount of funds toward its public schools. The lawsuit, originally filed in 2010, was decided after the court unanimously signed off on a law enacted in April that would increase the state education budget by $90 million a year.
