JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas City, Kansas, school superintendent has testified in court that the state’s new education funding law is hurting its programs.

Superintendent Cynthia Lane was a witness Thursday in a Shawnee County District Court hearing in a lawsuit from her district and three others. The districts are asking a three-judge panel to block the new law.

The law scrapped the state’s old, per-student formula for distributing aid in favor of predictable “block grants” to districts. Lane said the law hurts districts like hers with growing numbers of students.

Lawmakers also cut $51 million from the aid districts expected to receive during the current school year.

An attorney for the state sought to show that even with those cuts, districts are better off than during the 2013-14 school year.