Lawsuit seeks to overhaul school finance system
May 20, 2010 Filed in: Budget & Finance
| Litigation
Associated Press, The Orange County Register
A coalition of students,
school districts and education groups sued the state of
California
on Thursday, seeking to
force the governor and Legislature to develop a new system to fund
its cash-strapped public schools. The lawsuit asks the court to
declare the current school finance system unconstitutional because
the state doesn't provide enough money to cover its educational
mandates and programs…