Finance Suits Being Pursued in Conn., Mo.

Plaintiffs in Missouri and Connecticut are going to court to seek more state aid for schools.

Late last month, a group of 237 Missouri districts took steps to press on with a lawsuit arguing that the state’s school funding system is unfair and inadequate.

Calling themselves the Committee for Education Equality, the districts brought suit against the state in January. But the legal challenge stalled in June after the legislature approved a new funding system. The committee signaled its intent to keep up the fight on Nov. 22, when its lawyers returned to Cole County Circuit Court seeking permission to...