Second lawsuit attacks Florida school funding

11-20-2009

By Bill Kaczor/San Francisco Chronicle

State officials are facing a second lawsuit filed in as many weeks accusing them of shortchanging public schools in violation of a state constitutional provision requiring a "high quality" education for Florida's children. Several parents and two advocacy groups — Citizens for Strong Schools and Fund Education Now — sued Wednesday in state Circuit Court here. "This suit simply asks the question: 'Do we have high quality education in this state today?' and asks the court to answer that question," said former Florida House Speaker Jon Mills, who is part of the plaintiffs' legal team. The suit also argues the answer to that question is no. "There's a lot of evidence that we are not in the top echelon," said Mills, also former dean of the University of Florida's law school. (more...)

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