Legislature has chance to maintain Regents' trust Trust in the Legislature among state agencies, employees and retirees has always been tenuous at best.
Lawmakers sometimes forget commitments, especially when budget crunches hit.
That is why a shudder went through the university community when the House Appropriations Committee recommended that funding for the second year of the Kansas Higher Education Coordination Act of 1999 be slashed by 20 percent. Study is vital to determine need for more education funding A majority of Kansas lawmakers would support a tax increase for schools if they were convinced the money was really needed and confident that it would be spent wisely. As it stands now, they are neither. Perhaps they are just looking for excuses not to raise taxes, but I don't think so. I believe that a majority is divided into two camps.