Biggest legal challenge in history to Colorado's state's system of funding public schools is finally being played out before Colorado Supreme Court justices

Biggest legal challenge in history to Colorado's state's system of funding public schools is finally being played out before Colorado Supreme Court justices:

Biggest legal challenge in history to Colorado’s state’s system of funding public schools is finally being played out before Colorado Supreme Court justices

by Danny Weil

The Denver Post has reported that after eight years after it was first filed, the biggest legal challenge in history to the state’s system of funding public schools is finally being played out before Colorado Supreme Court justices.  Hearings in the case began on March 3, 2013 (http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_22734537/colorado-supreme-court-hear-historic-school-funding-case).

The mammoth court case, Lobato vs. State of Colorado, was filed in 2005 by a group of parents from around the state and school districts from the San Luis Valley. The suit alleges the state’s current school-funding system fails to provide a “thorough and uniform” system of education as outlined in the Colorado Constitution.

Plaintiffs in the suit, as well as the state, represented by Attorney General John Suthers’ office, presented oral arguments in the case.

Kathy Gebhardt, a lead attorney for the plaintiffs stated:

“This case is about our kids and Colorado’s future,” said. “Fifty years