Houston lawyer David Thompson, who knows more about school finance than just about anybody in Texas, led a delegation to visit the DMN editorial board today. The subject was the pending school funding lawsuit that a state district court is slated to hear in Austin in late October.
I will blog later about some of the issues that Thompson presented, but the fact that really got my attention was this one: The plaintiffs in the suit represent about 600 school districts, or about 2/3rds to 3/4ths of all Texas students.
That staggering number may have no legal bearing. But if the vast majority of kids in Texas schools are in districts that are protesting the way the state funds schools that says something about the widespread nature of Texas? school funding challenges.
Thompson says never before have so many districts or kids been represented in such a case in Texas. Perhaps judges aren?t supposed to be swayed by such data, but it sure stood out to me. There are complicated legal questions involved in all this, but clearly school funding is a problem that affects many districts and students. ?This is not an isolated problem that affects only rich or poor districts, who have normally been the key players in school finance suits in Texas.
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