Legal Opinion
Michael L. Williams, Commissioner of Education v. Sterling City Independent School District
Texas Court of Appeals, 11th District (Eastland)
Decided October 16, 2014No. 11-12-00035-CVPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MIKE WILLSON, Justice.
This appeal involves sovereign immunity and public school funding, specifically the application of former Section 42.2516(h) of the Texas Education Code as it existed from 2007-2009. 1 The dispute centers on whether Section 42.2516(h), as enacted in House Bill 1(HB1), authorized the Texas Commissioner of Education 2 to use all state aid and current local tax revenues to calculate “excess revenue” when determining the amount of local tax revenue that the State 3 “clawed back” 4 from Appellees:
Sterling City Independent School District, Highland Independent School…
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