The action by the Kansas Legislature this week on public school funding does not apparently include new money for Geary USD 475.

Superintendent of Schools Dr. Corbin Witt said the district has experienced some enrollment declines. “Based on that we’ll be down on funding. ”  Witt added unless there is a hold harmless provision he doesn’t see a scenario where the district would not be down on funding. “We have already made the adjustments and are able to cover that with what we’ve done this year. So we’re right where we thought we would be with this school finance formula. We had guessed that it would be a cut of somewhere around six-and-a-half million. We’ve already made those cuts.”

The Legislature proposed a $293 million dollars increase in K-12 funding over a two-year period. That plan must now be reviewed by the Kansas Supreme Court to see if it is an adequate funding amount. If not, the matter could be returned back to the Legislature.