According to the Kansas Center for Economic Growth, as states in our region use higher revenues to invest in education, Kansas' deep tax cuts are causing our schools to fall behind. Facing a $344 million budget shortfall, Gov. Brownback announced $28 million in cuts to k-12 education.
The other states in our region did not drastically cut income taxes like Kansas. On average, they saw tax revenues increase by almost 3 percent and were able to increase general per-pupil education spending by about 1 percent. Kansas, on the other hand, saw a 2.6 percent drop in revenues and cut general per-pupil spending by 2.6 percent, or $129 per student.
In Kansas, large budget shortfalls caused by tax cuts are driving cuts to the entire state budget, including in schools. Meanwhile, states in our region and across the country that didn't cut taxes are re-investing those extra dollars in educating kids.
Read entire Kansas Center for Economic Growth article.
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