Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District v. Edgewood Independent School District

OPINION ON DIRECT APPEAL

GONZALEZ, Justice.

We are again called upon to determine whether the state public school finance system violates the Texas Constitution. Article VII, section 1 of the Texas Constitution gives the Legislature the duty “to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.” We have twice recently held that the state public school system, because of the way in which it is financed, is not “efficient” as required by this provision of the Constitution. Edgewood Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Kirby, 777 S.W.2d 391, 398…