PHOENIX – – In a historical decision for the public schools in Arizona, the state's Supreme Court said that the Curry method for financing repairs and school maintenance for the school was unconstitutional.
They deeper:
The lawsuit dates from 2017 when several educational groups and school districts sued the legislator of the state of Arizona and claimed that legislators had not spent billions of dollars for critical repairs and maintenance work.
The video recorded this year showed at least the walls and the roof of a school massive cracks.
They deeper:
In the lawsuit, a judgment from the 1990s was cited in which a minimum financing -Benchmark was determined for schools, which they say that the legislature did not make it.
In her decision, the Supreme Court of the state decided that the current capital financial system for public school capital violates the general and uniform clause of Arizona's state constitution.
The clause is:
The legislator enacts the laws that are intended for the establishment and maintenance of a general and uniform public school system. The system includes:
1. Kindergarten schools.
2. Joint schools.
3. High school.
4. Normal schools.
5. Industrial schools.
6. Universities to which an agricultural college, a school of mines and other technical schools that can be essential until it can be classified as advisable to establish separate state institutions of such character.
The judgment also indicates that the system violates a different section of the state constitution, which is:
The income for maintaining the respective state educational institutions results from the investment of the proceeds of the sale and the renting of countries, which were revoked by the activation law of June 20, 1910 or other legislative decree of the United States for the use and benefits of the respective state educational institutions. In addition to such income, the legislator must meet such funds through taxes, such as the proper maintenance of all state educational institutions and special appropriations that are intended for their development and improvement.
What you say:
Educational groups call this a great victory and plan to work with the legislator to ensure that the decision leads to improvements in the whole state.
The other side:
The legislature of the state of Arizona is plans to appeal against the judgment.