Historical Background In 1994, in response to state funding cuts in the early 1990s, plaintiff school districts and students filed School
Louisiana
Historical Background In 1992, parents and school districts filed complaints alleging that the state was not providing “a minimum foundation of
Kentucky
Historical Background In 1985, 66 property-poor rural school districts in Kentucky filed a lawsuit claiming that the state education finance
Kansas
Historical Background The four cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court desegregation decision
Iowa
Historical Background In 2002, a coalition of 160 Iowa school districts and individual plaintiffs brought suit in state district court,
Indiana
Oral arguments took place on December 4, 2008. In July 2009, the state Supreme Court dismissed the case on justiciability grounds. The Court
Illinois
Historical Background Despite the Illinois Constitution’s strongly worded education clause, the Illinois Supreme Court has twice rejected
Idaho
Historical Background In 1975, the Idaho Supreme Court, in Thompson v. Engelking, 537 P.2d 635, rejected a claim that the state school
Hawaii
Historical Background Hawai'i is one of only six states where no court case challenging the state's education finance system has yet been decided