Scott v. Commonwealth

The dispositive question in this appeal is whether the current system of funding the Commonwealth’s public elementary and secondary schools violates Article I, § 15 and Article VIII, § 1 of the Constitution of Virginia.

I

Eleven public school students 1 and seven local school boards 2 (collectively, the Students) filed a bill of complaint seeking a declaratory judgment that the current system of funding public elementary and secondary schools violates the Virginia Constitution by denying the student complainants and other children “an educational opportunity substantially equal to that of…