Readers of The Business Advocate, responding to a poll question about how the state should pay for increased education spending said they favored reallocation of the current state budget versus increasing revenue.

A total of 67 percent of readers who responded said they favor reallocation as the best way for the state to provide more money to schools. Only 25 percent said they favored increasing revenue as the best strategy for providing more money to education. And, only eight percent said they preferred neither strategy.

“This survey tells us that our members want legislators to remember that the pool of funds to use for schools and all other state expenses is limited,” said Lew Ebert, Chamber president and CEO. “They want legislators to find the money for schools in the current budget, by cutting other expenditures rather than raising taxes.

"This poll, along with other member-driven data-gathering exercises, including a recent Kansas Voter's Poll and The CEO Poll, reinforce The Chamber's statewide agenda and help take the employer message to lawmakers," Ebert said.