Skeen v. State

KEITH, Chief Justice.

This case presents the issue of whether the state’s present system of educational finance is sufficient to meet the state constitutional requirement that the legislature “establish a general and uniform system of public schools” and provide sufficient financing to “secure a thorough and efficient system of public schools throughout the state.”

The plaintiffs in this case consist of 52 school districts and ten parents who brought suit in October 1988 against the State of Minnesota, State Board of Education, and the Commissioner of Education (“defendants”), seeking…