Edgewood Independent School District v. Kirby

OPINION

MAUZY, Justice.

At issue is the constitutionality of the Texas system for financing the education of public school children. Edgewood Inde pendent School District, sixty-seven other school districts, and numerous individual school children and parents filed suit seeking a declaration that the Texas school financing system violates the Texas Constitution. The trial court rendered judgment to that effect and declared that the system violates the Texas Constitution, article I, section 3, article I, section 19, and article VII, section 1. By a 2-1 vote, the court of appeals reversed that…