Brown ex rel. Stevens v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT

Troutman, J.

I. Background

Plaintiffs are seven students who attend four nonparty charter schools located in Buffalo and Rochester (hereafter, infant plaintiffs), and Northeast Charter Schools Network, Inc. (Network), an advocacy group of which those charter schools are members. In September 2014, plaintiffs commenced this action against, inter alia, the State of New York (defendant) challenging the validity of defendant’s charter school funding scheme under the New York State Constitution. More particularly, plaintiffs allege that defendant’s refusal to provide charter…