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Ks Commissioner of Education Randy Watson
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' attorney general and conservative lawmakers worry that the State Department of Education has informally tweaked policies determining how school funding is distributed.
Their concerns are likely to prompt a broad, independent audit of how the department distributes more than $4 billion in aid each year to the state's 286 school districts.
Education Commissioner Randy Watson said Tuesday that he's working a plan for such a review.
A state audit last month said a calculation used by the department for decades in distributing transportation funds was "not authorized" by law and cost the state an extra $45 million over the past five years.
Top Republican legislators failed to get the department's deputy commissioner suspended but continue to ask whether similar issues exist elsewhere in the funding formula.
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