Stowe Citizens for Responsible Government v. State

Plaintiff Stowe Citizens for Responsible Government, Inc. appeals the superior court’s summary judgment ruling rejecting plaintiff’s constitutional challenge to the Equal Educational Opportunity Act of 1997 (“Act 60”). Plaintiff contends that by relying on the discretion of voters in property-wealthy communities to provide additional tax revenue to supplement state funding for public education, Act 60 unconstitutionally delegates legislative authority to those communities and fails to satisfy the State’s obligation to provide all Vermont schoolchildren a substantially equal educational…