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Politics : Have you read your constitution today? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: long-gone who wrote (84)	7/3/2002 5:06:47 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 403

I guess if I felt strongly about it one way or another it would be important, but there are other things I am more passionate about.

To: long-gone who wrote (84)	7/3/2002 5:21:31 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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.