(KAIR)--It's a matter of wait and see for local school districts, following the Kansas Supreme Court decision earlier this month that funding for schools in the state is inadequate.

The court ruled that the Kansas Legislature must enact a new education funding law by the end of June.

Steve Wiseman, the Superintendent of Atchison County's USD 377, is watching the issue closely.

“Right now, we don't know what they're going to do,” Wiseman said. “It appears the legislature may be considering raising the 20 mil property tax levy and that pumps money directly into schools and doesn't require them having to go in and figure out more complex income or cooperate taxes. With our declining enrollment in the past two years, I think that right now, based upon school finance experts, if we can come out without a loss in general funding, then we'll be in good shape.”

Dr. Susan Myers is the Superintendent of Atchison's Public Schools of USD 409. She says while she's hopeful the Legislature will find a fix for funding, she's concerned that the state's budget woes could be a roadblock to success.

“They have an upward battle of course, given the financial situation of the state of Kansas,” Myers said. “My heart goes out to them to come up with a good, productive decision. I know they will work on that. I guess, my hopes are they will have a formula that will be beneficial to the students of Kansas—specifically USD 409.”

She said her fear is if that doesn't happen.

Myers says under the current financial model for funding Kansas schools, the district's funds remain frozen.

“Well basically, we're frozen,” she said. “I'm sure people can understand that concept, prices go up but yet, your income does not. One of the things that they took out with the new formula or block grants, is that if you get new students, there is no additional funding. So, we have been growing.”

Myers said they have been cutting their budget for the past nine years, this is not a new problem for them in terms of school finance.

The issue was also addressed during the most recent meeting of the Board of Education for the South Brown County Schools. During the March 13 meeting, USD 430 Superintendent Dr. Steve Davies told the Board it's his belief that school budgets will be cut before the end of the current school year, saying the state budget is still short $325 million for the current quarter, and $600 million short for the year.

The Supreme Court's ruling this month was made in regards to a lawsuit filed by four school districts in 2010. They argued that legislators were violating the state constitution by failing to finance a suitable education for each of the state's 458,000 students.

That decision was handed down as the state is already facing projected budget shortfalls totaling more than $1 billion through June 2019.