–ASSOCIATED PRESS
The suit had contended that a lack of funding has been damaging to minority and poor students.
But in its ruling, issued last month, the appeals court maintained that the state constitution does not include a way for judges to determine if Florida had violated its “paramount duty” to provide for a “high-quality system of free public schools.”
The ruling is another victory for the GOP-controlled legislature and other top state officials who had spent at least $4 million defending the state since the lawsuit was first filed in 2009.
