Crowded classrooms, higher fees, fewer after-school programs and staff - if you’re thinking that all sounds like a scholastic nightmare, you’re close. It’s the reality of education in Kansas.

The Kansas government made the decision to cut certain funding to schools as a way to help get the state through the “Great Recession.” The cuts made led to a lawsuit being filed in 2010 on behalf of parents and school districts who felt the state had harmed students, especially those in poorer districts. The case has now been ruled on by the Kansas Supreme Court, and they have found the current funding levels in Kansas public schools to be unconstitutional.

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