alluding to a right, but declining to determine whether it is fundamental because funding scheme did not pass rational basis review
How later courts described this case
- alluding to a right, but declining to determine whether it is fundamental because funding scheme did not pass rational basis review
- assessing the school funding formula against the equality provisions of the constitution, not the education article
- alleged the funding scheme caused a great disparity in funds available for education and violated Arkansas' constitution requiring "a general, suitable and efficient system of free public school...."
- noting trial with thirty-nine witnesses, 287 exhibits, and 7400 pages of testimony
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Dudley, J., concurs to the extent that the majority opinion finds a violation of Article XIV, § 1 of the Arkansas Constitution.