Wis. Supreme Court Upholds School Finance System
Many in Wisconsin's education community will be spending the remaining weeks of summer redoubling their efforts to persuade lawmakers to overhaul the state's method of financing schools, following a long-awaited state supreme court decision that upheld the system as constitutional.
The justices ruled 4-3 last month to keep the finance system intact and, for the first time, defined the state's responsibility in educating children. The 5- year-old Vincent v . Voight lawsuit had challenged both the funding disparities between rich and poor communities and the property-tax caps imposed on the state's 426 school districts in the early 1990s. ( "As Wis. Finance Ruling Nears, Protesters Set To Rally," June 21, 2000. )
"So long as the legislature is providing sufficient resources so that school districts offer students the equal opportunity for a sound basic education as required by the constitution, the state school finance system will pass constitutional muster," wrote Justice Patrick J. Crooks in...
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