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Schools, PTA sue California over education funding
- 05-20-2010
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By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
Claiming California's level of school funding violates the state Constitution's guarantee to make education a priority, a coalition of schools, officials and the state PTA filed suit today against the state of California. The suit, which asks the courts to scrap the financing system and direct the governor and Legislature to create one that is "sound, stable and sufficient," could prove to be California's most significant school litigation in decades. "Schools have been cut to the bone for the last two years. These cuts are just the tip of the iceberg," said Frank Pugh, president of the California School Boards Association, one of the plaintiffs. (more...)
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