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Politics : Have you read your constitution today?
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To: long-gone who wrote (84)7/3/2002 5:21:31 PM
From: epicureRead Replies (2) of 403
 
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- The state has filed an appeal with the
Arkansas Supreme Court challenging a judge's ruling that the state's public
school funding formula is unfair and provides inadequate resources.

In the appeal, filed Monday, the state argued that it has met its constitutional
obligation to fund public schools.

Before filing a 50-page brief and supporting documents with the high court, state
Attorney General Mark Pryor argued that the Legislature, and not the court system,
should determine matters involving public school finance.

Pryor also said he had "grave concerns" that if the
high court affirms the ruling, "what we'll see here in
the state of Arkansas is mass consolidation and also a
great increase in taxation."

The original ruling, handed down in May 2001 by
Pulaski County Chancellor Collins Kilgore, came in a
lawsuit in which the Lake View School District
challenged Arkansas' method of distributing $1.7
billion in education funding to 310 school districts.

Lake View lawyers filed their own appeal of Kilgore's ruling, arguing that remedies
that the chancellor set out did not go far enough. They said years of inequitable
funding should be remedied based on calculations set forth in a 1994 decision that
declared the school-funding formula unconstitutional.

Lake View lawyer Dion Wilson declined to discuss the state's appeal.

The school district originally sued to challenge the school-funding formula in 1992.
In 1994, then-Chancellor Annabelle Clinton Imber declared that the formula
unconstitutionally allowed wide funding disparities between wealthy school districts
and poor ones.

Imber was later elected to the state Supreme Court, leaving Kilgore to decide the
case.
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