| Kansas lawmakers agreed over the weekend to send more money to the stateà ??s poor school districts, addressing a State Supreme Court ruling last month that school financing had to be equalized around the state, but while state Democrats wanted to send more money to poor districts to satisfy the court ruling they favored fewer immediate policy changes, particularly on politically delicate issues like employment rules for public schoolteachers and tax breaks related to private schools....But an end to job protections infuriated teachers who had filled the Capitol galleries over the weekend to lobby against the measure. " |
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