Texas’s complicated method for funding its public schools has increasingly come under criticism in recent years. Last week the case finally reached the state Supreme Court, reports The Texas Tribune. The high court upheld the state’s public school funding as constitutional, but didn’t exactly praise the system.
Justice Don Willett called the school funding system “undeniably imperfect” and said there is “immense” room for improvement. But, he added, “it satisfies minimum constitutional requirements.” Willet urged Texas lawmakers to completely overhaul the system, rather than using small fixes that, in his words, “amount to Band-Aid on top of Band-Aid.” School advocates worry, though, that legislators will do nothing to fix the problem without a court order in place.
There were no dissenting opinions; all three judges on the court agreed on the constitutionality of the system.
