Painted Windows Not Good Enough

MALDEF Stands Ground in Texas School Funding Trial

By Greg Moses
Texas Civil Rights Review
http://texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/index.php

On a recent Friday, when Texas judge John Dietz summons attorneys “to the bench” in his Austin courtroom, thirteen well-suited lawyers come forward. There are lawyers for the state, who argue that the school funding system adopted by the legislature in 1993 is working as best it can. There are lawyers for wealthier school districts, such as West Orange Cove or Highland Park, who want the 1993 system shut down. And there are lawyers for the state’s impoverished school districts, such as Edgewood or Alvarado, who at first tried to stop this fight altogether, but who are now looking for ways to preserve, enforce, and extend the constitutional framework that the 1993 laws represent…..