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The Blog for Tuesday, January 25, 2005

School Funding Suit

    Remember the lawsuit over the Legislature's screwing South Florida's school districts to the benefit of largely red counties?
    A lawsuit challenging how Florida funds large urban school districts remained alive, although barely, after a judge threw out key provisions.

    A bid by the Miami-Dade school district to undo the way the state doles out money for public schools was seriously damaged Monday after a Tallahassee judge threw out most of the district's lawsuit.

    The district first went to court over the summer, after the Florida Legislature reduced the amount of money that Miami-Dade and other South Florida counties traditionally received to help pay for higher living costs. The change in the funding method has helped direct millions more to counties such as Orange, Leon and Duval, the home county of former Senate President Jim King, who was instrumental in altering the formula. ...

    But Circuit Court Judge P. Kevin Davey sided with lawyers hired by the Legislature, throwing out two of the three parts of the lawsuit. Davey ruled that changing the cost-of-living formula did not violate the state's requirement that school funding be done in a uniform way. He also ruled that legislators did not use the state budget to change a stand-alone law, which is also prohibited by the state Constitution. ...

    The judge, however, kept alive a portion of the lawsuit that questions whether the Department of Education had the authority to alter how it hands out the state money without changing state law first.

    "Dade suit over school funding falters". Expect an appeal of the dismissal once the trial on the remaining count is over.

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