JEFFERSON CITY — Next year’s K-12 budget is one House vote and full Senate approval away from enactment.

The House gave first-round approval, with a 100 to 60 vote, today to the House/Senate budget compromise.

Most people in the Capitol agree that Proposition A — the casino initiative on the last ballot that was supposed to bring money in for schools — was poorly worded. And a Senate bill seeking to address its problems will probably make its way to the House floor before session ends in two weeks.

Incidentally, the AP reported a few weeks ago that the Missouri Gaming Commission is predicting less new money than it originally expected from the change.

But some House members were still unhappy with the education budget, saying it used Prop A money incorrectly.

The budget bill in question, as well as Gov. Jay Nixon’s proposed budget, puts most of the new gambling money into the funding formula.

Rep. Sara Lampe, D-Springfield, said her constitutents have been asking her what happened to that gambling money.

” I think we have betrayed our voters,” she said.

The state is in the middle of transition between two funding formulas for schools. While the Legislature is required to fully fund the new formula, it was never required to fully fund the old formula.

Rep. Rachel Bringer, D-Palmyra, said the state should use gambling money to fund more of the old formula.