Big setback in Robles-Wong lawsuit
Judge rejects constitutional claims for adequate funding
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An Alameda County Superior Court judge has rejected the main claims in two lawsuits charging that the state’s “insufficient, irrational and unstable” school funding system violated children’s fundamental right to an education.
The ruling strongly restricts whether and how the case might go to trial. It is a setback to a coalition of powerful education groups – the California School Boards Association, the California Teachers Association, the state PTA and the Association of California School Administrators – and attorneys for disadvantaged children. They had hoped the court would