State to face education-funding suit:
"Arizona's leading advocacy group for charter schools is preparing to file a lawsuit to try to force the state to equalize funding for all public schools.
The lawsuit is expected to be filed next week in Maricopa County Superior Court on behalf of about a dozen families with students in district and charter schools, officials with the Arizona Charter Schools Association said Thursday.
The families will claim the state's funding system violates the Arizona Constitution in several ways, particularly in its mandate to provide all students with a uniform public-school education. Instead, an outdated formula leads to unequal funding of schools, allowing some higher-funded schools to offer students smaller classes and teachers more pay, officials said."
"Arizona's leading advocacy group for charter schools is preparing to file a lawsuit to try to force the state to equalize funding for all public schools.
The lawsuit is expected to be filed next week in Maricopa County Superior Court on behalf of about a dozen families with students in district and charter schools, officials with the Arizona Charter Schools Association said Thursday.
The families will claim the state's funding system violates the Arizona Constitution in several ways, particularly in its mandate to provide all students with a uniform public-school education. Instead, an outdated formula leads to unequal funding of schools, allowing some higher-funded schools to offer students smaller classes and teachers more pay, officials said."
