The Rainbow-PUSH Coalition has joined friends of
the Kansas Supreme Court who are allowed to weigh in on a lawsuit
challenging the state's school finance procedure. Chief Justice Kay
McFarland granted the request from the Rev. Jesse Jackson's
Chicago-based organization on Tuesday, setting a deadline of July 30
for the group to file its legal brief. The seven-member court is
scheduled to hear arguments Aug. 30 on the state's appeal of a Shawnee
County District Court judge's Dec. 2 ruling, which declared
unconstitutional the state's system for distributing $2.7 billion to
public schools. A ruling could come as early as October. The lawsuit
was filed in 1999 on behalf of parents and administrators in the Dodge
City and Salina school districts. They argued the school finance law
distributed funds unfairly, hurting poor and minority students in
particular. [more]
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