Brownback will allow $200 million drop in K-12 funding next year - Topeka K-12 | Examiner.com

Brownback will allow $200 million drop in K-12 funding next year - Topeka K-12 | Examiner.com

Brownback will allow $200 million drop in K-12 funding next year

• December 22nd, 2010 9:00 am CT

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Governor-elect Sam Brownback, working in his transitional office in Topeka, stated that he does not intend to replace $200 million in federal stimulus dollars that are set to expire. "I don't see how we can do a lot of augmentation really anywhere", Brownback said, referencing K-12 finance. School districts were cautioned earlier this yearthat such cuts were likely under a Brownback administration.

Currently, public schools are receiving about $200 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This allowed the state to direct $200 million in state revenues into other areas of the budget. It appears that Brownback does not intend to return that state funding back to K-12