School funding on the line when Texas Supreme Court takes on case next week

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN — Back to the courthouse.

Four years after more than 600 school districts, the charter school system, a group of parents and even the influential Texas Association of Business sued the state on grounds the Legislature has failed to adequately fund public education, attorneys for both sides square off again Tuesday.

Although, so far, the state is 0-2 in the current legal fight that began in the fall of 2011 — it is the sixth school funding lawsuit since the mid-1980s — this should be the decisive round because the Texas Supreme Court, not a state district court, is now refereeing the bout.

Both sides know the stakes are high.

“It won’t be easy but if the Texas Supreme Court follows the facts and the law, then the children win and the state loses,” said school finance attorney David Hinojosa who, until recently, represented some of the poorest school districts and a parents group on behalf of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

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[DhhD]

1. All of the Put-Offs are causing harm. Hope the decision is rendered very soon.

Same on the voter ID that was decided against but allowed in Texas at the decision of the AG. In my opinion, even though Abbott knew he was well ahead in the polls, he decided to place unnecessary emotional and perhaps physical harm to women and to the elderly, that came to vote just as they have in Texas, all of their adult lives.

[Gothmog]

2. The Texas Supreme court has nine nutcase righties on it

I would not expect them to make the correct ruling