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Article: Missouri Schools Sue over Distribution of State Aid.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- January 7, 2004
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Byline: Carolyn Bower
Jan. 7--A group of school districts representing more than a third of Missouri's public school students filed suit Tuesday challenging the state's system for distributing money to public schools.
The lawsuit alleges that Missouri fails to provide enough money to educate every student and deprives students of equal opportunities to an education. The suit asks the court to declare Missouri's education financing system unconstitutional.
The suit was filed in Cole County Circuit Court in Jefferson City by the Committee for Educational Equality, plus several parents and their children. The committee represents 243 school ...