After months of speculation of when the Kansas Supreme Court would issue their ruling on school funding, the answer came in a release Thursday.

The Supreme Court said Thursday that they will release it’s ruling on a state school finance lawsuit Friday.

The lawsuit was filed in 2010 by attorneys representing four school districts and parents that alleged the state reneged on promises made in 2006 to provide a certain level of funding to Kansas public schools.

The ruling has been long anticipated by lawmakers since they opened their session on January 13th.

Representative Allan Rothlisberg of Grandview Plaza says he felt the ruling has been decided for quite sometime just not released.

“There’s no doubt in my mind they knew about this in the November-December time frame. They’re just putting in for maximum effective value, so to speak,” Rothlisberg said.

Rothlisberg said that the ruling won’t affect what the legislature is doing.

“It is between the Governor and the people who filed the lawsuit. So state legislature bodies and those in the senate we were not in the lawsuit what so ever. So if you are not a respondent in a lawsuit you really don’t have to respond to what the results are,” Rothlisberg said.

 

Whether the legislature does end up taking action depends on the legislatures leadership and what Governor Sam Brownback decides to do according to Rothlisberg.

“He’s (Brownback) going to have to come out with the recommendations working with stuff and it depends whether he feels the courts have the right to dictate monetary policies and taxation policies.”

If the ruling comes back in favor of the school’s, lawmakers may have to add $400 million in funding a year to K-12.