GOP lawmakers in Kansas seek to break school funding impasse

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Republican lawmakers tried on Saturday to break their impasse over how much to increase spending on Kansas' public schools, facing intense pressure to pass a plan for satisfying a court mandate on education funding in just a day or two.

Some members of the GOP-controlled Legislature and Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer have worried that a frustrated state Supreme Court would take the unprecedented step of preventing the state from distributing dollars through a flawed education funding system, effectively closing schools statewide.