(AP) — Republican majorities in the Kansas Legislature raced Thursday to approve a new plan to reshuffle education spending, hoping to head off the state Supreme Court's threat to shut down public schools statewide if lawmakers don't fix the funding problems by the end of June. The votes came only two days after bills containing the plan were introduced in the House and Senate, and GOP leaders took special steps to move with unusual speed. [...] an attorney for four school districts suing the state predicted that the high court would reject the Republican leaders' response — a redistribution of $83 million a year, without an overall increase in state spending. Democrats also doubted that the plan will withstand court scrutiny and suggested that if Republican lawmakers had taken more time, they could be confident the court's demands were being met. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Kansas Constitution requires the state to provide a suitable education to every child, and its funding must both be adequate and be distributed to help poor districts keep up with wealthier counterparts.