District Coalition Challenges Wis. School-Funding System
About 100 Wisconsin school districts filed a lawsuit last week challenging the state's school-finance system and arguing that recent changes in state law will only make things worse.
The Association for Equity in Funding, a group that has monitored disparities between the state's wealthy and poor school districts over the past four years, filed its constitutional challenge in Dane County Circuit Court in Madison.
The suit argues that the state constitution's guarantee of an education system "as nearly uniform as is practicable"...
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