Legal Opinion
Knowles v. State Board of Education
Supreme Court of Kansas
Decided March 6, 1976No. 48,033PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Fromme, J.:
This is an action for a declaratory judgment that the Kansas School District Equalization Act of 1973 (K. S. A. 1974 Supp. 72-7030 et seq.) violates the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the State of Kansas as well as the equal protection clause contained in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
This Act provides for a complicated formula by which the State Board of Education is authorized to distribute money from the state school district equalization fund to the various local school districts in the state to…
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