Gannon v. State

Last June we held the State had resolved nearly all of the issues in this long-running school finance appeal. Gannon v. State , 308 Kan. 372 , 420 P.3d 477 (2018) ( Gannon VI ). We specifically concluded that through legislation enacted in 2017 and 2018, the State had met its burden of complying with the equity requirements of Article 6, § 6(b) of the Kansas Constitution (obligating the Legislature to "make suitable provision for finance of the educational interests of the state"). 308 Kan. at 373-74 , 420 P.3d 477 .

We further held that the State had not met § 6(b)'s adequacy requirement,…