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A North Carolina judge has ordered the state to transfer $1.7 billion from its reserves to increase funding for public education, an action that GOP lawmakers called rogue and a violation of the law.
State Superior Court Judge David Lee ruled Wednesday that North Carolina has failed to provide students with their Constitutional guarantee to a sound basic education. To remedy the violation, Lee ordered the state budget director, state treasurer and state controller to take the necessary actions to transfer the total amount to fund the next two years of a plan developed by an education consultant.
Lee, speaking at a court hearing in Raleigh, said that the state Constitution empowers the courts to act when the other branches of government dont follow their constitutional obligations. He said the courts deference is at an end after waiting 17 years since the last time the N.C. Supreme Court said the state wasnt meeting its educational obligations.
The repeated failure by the state is a constitutional violation that has to be remedied, Lee said.
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article255678281.html
(Raleigh News & Observer)
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(10,471 posts)and set an example for many other areas of the US.
Republicans have since DESTROYED that, and their defunding of public education in the state is one way they did it.